On one extremal problem for numerical series

Abstract

Let Γ be the set of all permutations of the natural series and let α = {α _j} _j∈ℕ, ν = {ν_j} _j∈ℕ, and η = {η_j} _j∈ℕ be nonnegative number sequences for which

$$\left\| {\nu (\alpha \eta )_\gamma } \right\|_1 : = \sum\limits_{j = 1}^\infty {v _j \alpha _{\gamma (_j )} } \eta _{\gamma (_j )} $$

is defined for all γ:= {γ(j)} _j∈ℕ ∈ Γ and η ∈ l _p. We find $\sup _{\eta :\left\| \eta \right\|_p = 1} \inf _{\gamma \in \Gamma } \left\| {\nu (\alpha \eta )_\gamma } \right\|_1$ in the case where 1 < p < ∞.