Reproducing kernel for $L_p$ Banach space

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For a given space $\mathcal{X}$, consider the Banach space $L_p(\mathcal{X},\mu)$ for Lebesgue distribution $\mu$, where $p \neq 2$. It is straightforward that the dual space to this is $L_q(\mathcal{X},\mu)$ where $1/p + 1/q = 1$.

I'm trying to find kernels $\mathcal{K}: \mathcal{X} \times \mathcal{X} \to C$ and $G: \mathcal{X} \times \mathcal{X} \to C$ such that

  1. $G(x,\cdot) \in L_p(\mathcal{X},\mu)$ and $\mathcal{K}(\cdot, x) = (G(x,\cdot))^*$ for all $x \in \mathcal{X}$

  2. $f(x) = (f, G(x, \cdot))_{L_p}$, $f^∗(x) = (K(x, ·), f )_{L_p}$, $f \in L_p, f^∗ \in L_p, x \in \mathcal{X}$.

One can consider a semi-inner product in this case where $(f,g)_{L_p} = \frac{\int_{\mathcal{X}} f\bar{g}|g|^{p-2}}{||g||^{p-2}_{L_p}}$ for $f,g \in L_p$. It is clear that the dual map in this case has the following form: $f^* = \frac{\bar{f}|f|^{p-2}}{||f||^{p-2}_{L_p}}$. But it is not clear to me what could be valid reproducing kernels. Can anyone help understand this or provide some idea as to how to construct one?

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PRELIMINARY REMARK. In the following, $p\in [1, \infty)$. The extreme case $p=\infty$ is not covered by the question, as the duality pairing $(\cdot, \cdot)_p$ defined there makes no sense in that case.


Let us consider the case $\mathcal{X}=\mathbb R$. Aiming for a contradiction, suppose that a function $G$ satisfying point 1 existed. Note that, by Hölder's inequality, for arbitrary $f, g\in L^p$ we have that $$ \lvert (f, g)_{L^p}\rvert\le \lVert f\rVert_p \lVert g \rVert_p, $$ so applying this with $g=G(x, \cdot)$ we obtain that, for each $x\in\mathbb R$, there is $C(x)>0$ such that $$\tag{1} \lvert f(x)\rvert\le C(x) \lVert f\rVert_{L^p(\mathbb R)}.$$ Indeed, $C(x)$ can be taken to be $\lVert G(x, \cdot)\rVert_p$.

This inequality (1) is clearly absurd, since $f$ is only defined up to almost everywhere equivalence, hence $f(x)$ can take any value without altering $\lVert f\rVert_{L^p(\mathbb R)}$.

Even if we insisted on trying to prove (1) for continuous $f$ only, we would find it cannot hold unless $p=\infty$. The scaling is off: indeed, considering $$ f_\lambda(y):=\lambda^\frac{1}{p}f(\lambda(y-x)+x), \quad \text{for }\lambda>0, $$ we have that $\lVert f_\lambda\rVert_{L^p(\mathbb R)}=\lVert f\rVert_{L^p(\mathbb R)}$, while $\lvert f_\lambda(x)\rvert =\lambda^\frac1p\lvert f(x)\rvert$. So the left-hand side of (1) can be scaled to be arbitrarily big, while the right-hand side remains constant. This proves that (1) is absurd, even for continuous $f$ only.

NOTE TO THE READER: This scaling argument is easier to understand in the case $x=0$.