ON Subspaces OF NON-Reflexive Orlicz Spaces

Abstract

Kadec and Pelczýnski have shown that every non-reflexive subspace of L ¹ (μ) contains a copy of l ₁ complemented in L ¹(μ). On the other hand Rosenthal investigated the structure of reflexive subspaces of L ¹(μ) and proved that such sub-spaces have non-trivial type. We show the same facts to hold true for a special class of non-reflexive Orlicz spaces. In particular we show that if F is an N-function in δ₂ with its complement G satisfying limt→∞ G(ct)/G(t) = ∞, then every non-reflexive subspace of L*_F contains a copy of l ₁ complemented in L*_F. Furthermore we establish the fact that if F is an N-function in δ₂ with its complement G satisfying limt→∞ G(ct)/G(t) = ∞, then every reflexive subspace of L*_F has non-trivial type.