### Some natural subspaces and quotient spaces of $L^1$

#### Abstract

We show that the space $\mathrm{Lip}_0(\mathbb R^n)$ is the dual space of $L^{1}({\mathbb R}^{n}; {\mathbb R}^{n})/N$ where $N$ is the subspace of $L^{1}({\mathbb R}^{n}; {\mathbb R}^{n})$ consisting of vector fields whose divergence vanishes identically. We prove that although the quotient space $L^{1}({\mathbb R}^{n}; {\mathbb R}^{n})/N$ is weakly sequentially complete, the subspace $N$ is not nicely placed - in other words, its unit ball is not closed for the topology $\tau_m$ of local convergence in measure. We prove that if $\Omega$ is a bounded open star-shaped subset of $\mathbb {R}^n$ and $X$ is a dilation-stable closed subspace of $L^1(\Omega)$ consisting of continuous functions, then the unit ball of $X$ is compact for the compact-open topology on $\Omega$. It follows in particular that such spaces $X$, when they have Grothendieck's approximation property, have unconditional finite-dimensional decompositions and are isomorphic to weak*-closed subspaces of $l^1$. Numerous examples are provided where such results apply.

#### Article information

Source
Adv. Oper. Theory, Volume 3, Number 1 (2018), 61-74.

Dates
Accepted: 14 April 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 5 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aot/1512497953

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.22034/aot.1702-1124

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3730340

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06804317

#### Citation

Godefroy, Gilles; Lerner, Nicolas. Some natural subspaces and quotient spaces of $L^1$. Adv. Oper. Theory 3 (2018), no. 1, 61--74. doi:10.22034/aot.1702-1124. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aot/1512497953

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