Lipschitz free $p$-spaces for $0<p<1$

Abstract

This paper initiates the study of the structure of a new class of $p$-Banach spaces, $0<p<1$, namely the Lipschitz free $p$-spaces (alternatively called Arens-Eells $p$-spaces) ${\mathcal{F}}_p(\mathcal{M})$ over $p$-metric spaces. We systematically develop the theory and show that some results hold as in the case of $p=1$, while some new interesting phenomena appear in the case $0<p<1$ which have no analogue in the classical setting. For the former, we, e.g., show that the Lipschitz free $p$-space over a separable ultrametric space is isomorphic to ${\ell }_p$ for all $0<p\le 1$, or that ${\ell }_p$ isomorphically embeds into ${\mathcal{F}}_p(\mathcal{M})$ for any $p$-metric space $\mathcal{M}$. On the other hand, solving a problem by the first author and N. Kalton, there are metric spaces $\mathcal{N}\subset \mathcal{M}$ such that the natural embedding from ${\mathcal{F}}_p(\mathcal{N})$ to ${\mathcal{F}}_p(\mathcal{M})$ is not an isometry.

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