Spaces of Lipschitz and Hölder functions and their applications
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Spaces of Lipschitz and Hölder functions and their applications
zbMATH Open document ID: 1069.46004
author: N. J. Kalton
published in: Collectanea Mathematica
publication date: 2004-12-29T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/44337
review text: For a metric space \((M,d)\), the author considers derived metrics of the form \({\omega \circ d}\) and the associated space Lip\(_\omega(M)\) of \({\omega \circ d}\)-Lipschitz functions that vanish at a distinguished point of~\(M\). If \(\omega(t)=t^\alpha\), one obtains the Hölder space Lip\(^{(\alpha)}(M)\). The main issue of the paper is to study these Banach spaces and their canonical preduals, denoted \({\mathcal F}_\omega(M)\) or \({\mathcal F}^{(\alpha)}(M)\), see \textit{G.~Godefroy, N. J. Kalton}, [Stud.\ Math.\ 159, No.1, 121--141 (2003; Zbl 1059.46058)]. For example, it is shown that \({\mathcal F}_\omega(M)\) has the Schur property whenever \(\omega(t)/t\to \infty\) for \(t\to 0\), and for uniformly discrete metric spaces it has the Radon-Nikodym property and the approximation property. The core of the paper deals with the question, raised in [\textit{N.~Weaver}, `Lipschitz Algebras', World Scientific (1999; Zbl 0936.46002)], whether the ``little'' Lipschitz space lip\(^{(\alpha)}(K)\) over a compact metric space is necessarily isomorphic to \(c_0\). This is known to be true for compact subsets in \({\mathbb R}^n\). The main result says that there are a wealth of counterexamples: If \(K\) is a compact convex subset of \(\ell_2\), then lip\(^{(\alpha)}(K)\) is isomorphic to \(c_0\) if and only if \(K\) is finite-dimensional. The conclusion persists for subsets of Banach spaces with nontrivial type or for subsets of arbitrary Banach spaces if \(0<\alpha\leq 1/2\); but the author conjectures the theorem to hold also in the remaining range \(1/2<\alpha <1\). On the other hand, he shows that lip\((K)\) always embeds almost isomorphically into~\(c_0\). The key to prove these results is to use the natural quotient map \(\beta: {\mathcal F}^{(\alpha)}(B_X) \to X\), which is known to admit a section that is uniformly continuous on \(B_X\), and to study the question for which Banach spaces \(Y\) there are quotient maps \(Q:Y\to X\) having such sections. Arguments…
reviewed by: Dirk Werner
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46B03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46B20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46E15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46T20
zbMATH DE Number: 2123817
zbMATH Keywords: Lipschitz spaces
zbMATH Keywords: uniformly continuous sections
zbMATH Keywords: Assouad dimension
zbMATH Keywords: isomorphisms to \(c_0\)
zbMATH Keywords: isomorphisms to \(\ell_\infty\)
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