Calderón-Mityagin couples of Banach spaces related to decreasing functions

A number of Calderón-Mityagin couples and relative Calderón-Mityagin pairs are identified among Banach function spaces defined in terms of the least decreasing majorant construction on the half line. The interpolation structure of such spaces is shown to closely parallel that of the rearrangement invariant spaces, and it is proved that a couple of these spaces is a Calderón-Mityagin couple if and only if the corresponding couple of rearrangement invariant spaces is a Calderón-Mityagin couple. Consequently, the class of all interpolation spaces for any couple of spaces of this type admits a complete description by the K-method if and only if the class of all interpolation spaces for the corresponding couple of rearrangement invariant spaces does. Analogous results are proved for spaces defined in terms of the level function construction. In the main, the conclusions for both types of spaces remain valid when Lebesgue measure on the half line is replaced by a general Borel measure on R. However, for certain measures the class of interpolation spaces of these new spaces may be degenerate, reducing the “if and only if” of the main results to a single implication.