Spaces of integrable functions with respect to a vector measure and factorizations through Lp and Hilbert spaces

We use the integration structure of the spaces of scalar integrable functions with respect to a vector measure to provide factorization theorems for operators between Banach function spaces through Hilbert spaces. A broad class of Banach function spaces can be represented as spaces of scalar integrable functions with respect to a vector measure, but this representation (the vector measure) is not unique. Since our factorization depends on the vector measure that is used for the representation we also give a characterization of those vector measures whose corresponding spaces of integrable functions coincide. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.