Topics on Function Spaces and Multilinear Algebra

Licentiate thesis, 2013

The present thesis consists of three different papers. Indeed, they treat two different research areas: function spaces and multilinear algebra. In paper I, a characterization of continuity of the $p$-$\Lambda$-variation function is given and Helly's selection principle for $\Lambda BV^{(p)}$ functions is established. A characterization of the inclusion of Waterman-Shiba classes into classes of functions with given integral modulus of continuity is given. A useful estimate on the modulus of variation of functions of class $\Lambda BV^{(p)}$ is found. In paper II, a characterization of the inclusion of Waterman-Shiba classes into $H_{\omega}^{q}$ is given. This corrects and extends an earlier result of a paper from 2005. In paper III, we discuss the existence of an orthogonal basis consisting of decomposable vectors for all symmetry classes of tensors associated with semi-dihedral groups $SD_{8n}$. The dimensions of these symmetry classes of tensors are also computed.