Timeline for Origin of $L$ in $L^1$ and $L^2$ norms
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 4:42 | vote | accept | ACR | ||
| Oct 28, 2022 at 4:41 | comment | added | ACR | @FrancoisZieglerm Thank you. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 4:25 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @AChem E. Hilb-M.Riesz 1924 is an early article that explicitly ties the $L$ with Lebesgue, see p. 1191. You'll find more with a google books search for “Lebesgue class”. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 0:28 | comment | added | ACR | Thanks. It is indeed very likely. The original author Riesz never explicitly stated what L stands for. It seems like the sinc story that we discussed a couple of years ago. | |
| Oct 24, 2022 at 21:22 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | Also, the Jahrbuch review by Hellinger writes with emphasis: “This work is based on using, instead of the square integrable functions, the class $[L^p]\ (p>1)$ of all functions, whose $p$-th power is integrable in Lebesgue's sense.” Maybe this comes closest to saying that $L$ stands for Lebesgue. | |
| Oct 24, 2022 at 19:14 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2022 at 19:00 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |