Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 6 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 101-114
doi:10.1155/S1085337501000446

Extension of the best approximation operator in Orlicz spaces and weak-type inequalities

Sergio Favier and Felipe Zò

Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Avenida Ejército de los Andes 950, San Luis 5700, Argentina

Abstract

We consider an extension of the best approximation operator from an Orlicz space Lφ to the space Lφ, where φ denotes the derivative of φ, and we prove a weak-type inequality in this space. Further, we obtain some strong inequalities for suitable Lψ spaces.