Lp sum

Summary

In mathematics, and specifically in functional analysis, the Lp sum of a family of Banach spaces is a way of turning a subset of the product set of the members of the family into a Banach space in its own right. The construction is motivated by the classical Lp spaces.[1]

Definition edit

Let   be a family of Banach spaces, where   may have arbitrarily large cardinality. Set

 
the product vector space.

The index set   becomes a measure space when endowed with its counting measure (which we shall denote by  ), and each element   induces a function

 

Thus, we may define a function

 
and we then set
 
together with the norm
 

The result is a normed Banach space, and this is precisely the Lp sum of  

Properties edit

  • Whenever infinitely many of the   contain a nonzero element, the topology induced by the above norm is strictly in between product and box topology.
  • Whenever infinitely many of the   contain a nonzero element, the Lp sum is neither a product nor a coproduct.

References edit

  1. ^ Helemskii, A. Ya. (2006). Lectures and Exercises on Functional Analysis. Translations of Mathematical Monographs. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-4098-3.