Approximate identities on some homogeneous Banach spaces

We study convergence of approximate identities on some complete semi-normed or normed spaces of locally L ^p functions where translations are isometries, namely Marcinkiewicz spaces \({\mathcal{M}^{p}}\) and Stepanoff spaces \({\mathcal{S}^p}\), 1 ≤ p < ∞, as well as others where translations are not isometric but bounded (the bounded p-mean spaces M ^p ) or even unbounded (\({M^{p}_{0}}\)). We construct a function f that belongs to these spaces and has the property that all approximate identities \({\phi_\varepsilon * f}\) converge to f pointwise but they never converge in norm.