We prove sharp a priori estimates for the distribution function of the dyadic maximal function ℳ ϕ, when ϕ belongs to the Lorentz space $L^{p,q}$, 1 < p < ∞, 1 ≤ q < ∞. The approach rests on a precise evaluation of the Bellman function corresponding to the problem. As an application, we establish refined weak-type estimates for the dyadic maximal operator: for p,q as above and r ∈ [1,p], we determine the best constant $C_{p,q,r}$ such that for any $\varphi \in L^{p,q}$, ${\left|\right|ℳ\varphi \left|\right|}_{r,\infty }\le C_{p,q,r}{\left|\right|\varphi \left|\right|}_{p,q}$.

Some weighted sharp maximal function inequalities for the Toeplitz type operator $T_b={\sum }_{k=1}^m{T}^{k,1}{M}_b{T}^{k,2}$ are established, where $T^{k,1}$ are a fixed singular integral operator with non-smooth kernel or ±I (the identity operator), $T^{k,2}$ are linear operators defined on the space of locally integrable functions, k = 1,..., m, and $M_b\left(f\right)=bf$. The weighted boundedness of $T_b$ on Morrey spaces is obtained by using sharp maximal function inequalities.

For 1 < p < ∞ and for weight w in $A_p$, we show that the r-variation of the Fourier sums of any function f in $L^p\left(w\right)$ is finite a.e. for r larger than a finite constant depending on w and p. The fact that the variation exponent depends on w is necessary. This strengthens previous work of Hunt-Young and is a weighted extension of a variational Carleson theorem of Oberlin-Seeger-Tao-Thiele-Wright. The proof uses weighted adaptation of phase plane analysis and a weighted extension of a variational inequality...

Given $\alpha$, $0<\alpha <n$, and $b\in \mathrm{B}MO$, we give sufficient conditions on weights for the commutator of the fractional integral operator, $[b,I_{\alpha }]$, to satisfy weighted endpoint inequalities on ${ℝ}^n$ and on bounded domains. These results extend our earlier work [3], where we considered unweighted inequalities on ${ℝ}^n$.

Let $m$ be a positive integer, $0<\alpha <mn$, $\overrightarrow{b}=(b_1,\cdots ,b_m)\in {\mathrm{BMO}}^m$. We give sufficient conditions on weights for the commutators of multilinear fractional integral operators ${ℐ}_{\alpha }^{\overrightarrow{b}}$ to satisfy a weighted endpoint inequality which extends the result in D. Cruz-Uribe, A. Fiorenza: Weighted endpoint estimates for commutators of fractional integrals, Czech. Math. J. 57 (2007), 153–160. We also give a weighted strong type inequality which improves the result in X. Chen, Q. Xue: Weighted estimates for a class of multilinear fractional type...

We study boundedness properties of commutators of general linear operators with real-valued BMO functions on weighted $L^p$ spaces. We then derive applications to particular important operators, such as Calderón-Zygmund type operators, pseudo-differential operators, multipliers, rough singular integrals and maximal type operators.

The following iterated commutators $T_{\ast ,\Pi b}$ of the maximal operator for multilinear singular integral operators and $I_{\alpha ,\Pi b}$ of the multilinear fractional integral operator are introduced and studied: $T_{\ast ,\Pi b}\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)=su{p}_{\delta >0}\left|[b₁,[b₂,\dots {[b_{m-1},[bₘ,T_{\delta }]ₘ]}_{m-1}\cdots ]₂]₁\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)\right|$, $I_{\alpha ,\Pi b}\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)=[b₁,[b₂,\dots {[b_{m-1},[bₘ,I_{\alpha }]ₘ]}_{m-1}\cdots ]₂]₁\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)$, where $T_{\delta }$ are the smooth truncations of the multilinear singular integral operators and $I_{\alpha }$ is the multilinear fractional integral operator, $b_i\in BMO$ for i = 1,…,m and f⃗ = (f1,…,fm). Weighted strong and L(logL) type end-point estimates for the above iterated commutators associated with two classes of multiple weights,...

An improved multiple Cotlar inequality is obtained. From this result, weighted norm inequalities for the maximal operator of a multilinear singular integral including weak and strong estimates are deduced under the multiple weights constructed recently.

Many problems in analysis are described as weighted norm inequalities that have given rise to different classes of weights, such as $A_p$-weights of Muckenhoupt and $B_p$-weights of Ariño and Muckenhoupt. Our purpose is to show that different classes of weights are related by means of composition with classical transforms. A typical example is the family $M_p$ of weights w for which the Hardy transform is $L_p\left(w\right)$-bounded. A $B_p$-weight is precisely one for which its Hardy transform is in $M_p$, and also a weight whose indefinite...

We characterize geometric properties of a family of approach regions by means of analytic properties of the class of weights related to the boundedness of the maximal operator associated with this family.