An Axiomatic Theory Of Normed Modules Via Riesz Spaces

Abstract

We introduce and study an axiomatic theory of V-normed U-modules, where V is a Riesz space and U is an f-algebra; the spaces U and V also have some additional structure and are required to satisfy a compatibility condition. Roughly speaking, a V-normed U-module is a module over U that is endowed with a pointwise norm operator taking values in V. The aim of our approach is to develop a unified framework, which is tailored to the differential calculus on metric measure spaces, where U and V can take many different spaces of functions.