Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
In recent years there has been considerable interest in Banach spaces with the Radon-Nikodym Property; see (1) for a summary of the main known results on this class of spaces.We may define this property as follows: a Banach space X has the Radon-Nikodym Property if whenever T ∈ ℒ (L1, X)(where L1 = L1(0, 1)) then T is differentiable i.e.
where g:(0, 1)→X is an essentially bounded strongly measurable function. In this paper we examine analogues of the Radon-Nikodym Property for quasi-Banach spaces. If 0>p > 1, there are several possible ways of defining “differentiable” operators on Lp, but they inevitably lead to the conclusion that the only differentiable operator is zero.