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CONTRACTIVE PROJECTIONS IN ORLICZ SEQUENCE SPACES BEATA RANDRIANANTOANINA Received 23 June 2003 We characterize norm-one complemented subspaces of Orlicz sequence spaces M equip- ped with either Luxemburg or Orlicz norm, provided that the Orlicz function M is suffi- ciently smooth and sufficiently different from the square function. We measure smooth- ness of M using AC 1 and AC2 classes introduced by Maleev and Troyanski in 1991, and the condition for M to be different from a square function is essentially a requirement that the second derivative M of M cannot have a finite nonzero limit at zero. This paper treats the real case; the complex case follows from previously known results. 1. Introduction The study of norm-one projections and their ranges (one-complemented subspaces) has been an important topic of the isometric Banach space theory since the inception of the field. Contractive projections were also investigated from the approximation theory point of view, as part of the study of minimal projections, that is, projections onto the given subspace with the smallest possible norm (cf. [5, 14]). They are also closely related to the metric projections or nearest point mappings, and they are a natural extension of the notion of orthogonal projections from Hilbert spaces to general Banach spaces. Despite a great amount of work on contractive projections (cf. the survey [19]), not much is known about them in Orlicz spaces. In Lebesgue spaces L and , 1 ≤ p ∞, a subspace Y is one-complemented if and p p only if Y is isometrically isomorphic to an Lp -space of appropriate dimension (see [1, 6]). This result has no analogue in other spaces. Lindberg [ 10] demonstrated that there exist classes of Orlicz sequence spaces M containing one-complemented subspaces which are not even isomorphic to M . He showed that for all 1 a ≤ b ∞, there exists a reflexive Orlicz sequence space M so that