Geometry of variable-exponent Bochner-Lebesgue spaces: Dentability, Radon-Nikodym property, and uniform convexity
نویسندگان
1 National Technical University of Ukraine, “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
doi
10.30504/jims.2026.567288.1310چکیده
This paper provides a comprehensive study of geometric properties of variable-exponent Lebesgue-Bochner spaces $L^{p(\cdot)}(E, X)$. We establish that $L^{p(\cdot)}(E, X)$ has the Radon-Nikodym property (RNP) if and only if $X$ does, under the condition $p_m > 1$. We investigate dentability of specific subsets, showing that while the unit ball inherits dentability from $X$, the set of simple functions may remain nondentable even when the space possesses RNP. The perseverance of uniform convexity and smoothness are shown when both $X$ and $L^{p(\cdot)}(E)$ have these properties. We introduce quantitative dentability moduli and relate the dentability modulus of $L^{p(\cdot)}(E,X)$ to that of $X$, showing the relevance to the measure of $E$, and the oscillation of $p(\cdot)$. The paper reveals how variable exponents create hybrid geometries mixing $L^1$ and $L^p$ behaviors, with implications for PDE theory, optimization, and geometric analysis.