Fatou Property, representations, and extensions of law-invariant risk measures on general Orlicz spaces

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We provide a variety of results for (quasi)convex, law-invariant functionals defined on a general Orlicz space, which extend well-known results in the setting of bounded random variables. First, we show that Delbaen's representation of convex functionals with the Fatou property, which fails in a general Orlicz space, can be always achieved under the assumption of law-invariance. Second, we identify the range of Orlicz spaces where the characterization of the Fatou property in terms of norm lower semicontinuity by Jouini, Schachermayer and Touzi continues to hold. Third, we extend Kusuoka's representation to a general Orlicz space. Finally, we prove a version of the extension result by Filipović and Svindland by replacing norm lower semicontinuity with the (generally non-equivalent) Fatou property. Our results have natural applications to the theory of risk measures.