2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 45A05, 45B05, 45E05,45P05, 46E30We obtain a criterion of Fredholmness and formula for the Fredholm index of a certain class of one-dimensional integral operators M with a weak singularity in the kernel, from the variable exponent Lebesgue space L^p(·) ([a, b], ?) to the Sobolev type space L^α,p(·) ([a, b], ?) of fractional smoothness. We also give formulas of closed form solutions ϕ ∈ L^p(·) of the 1st kind integral equation M0ϕ = f, known as the generalized...

Let $\Phi \left(t\right)={ʃ}_0^{t}a\left(s\right)ds$ and $\Psi \left(t\right)={ʃ}_0^{t}b\left(s\right)ds$, where a(s) is a positive continuous function such that ${ʃ}_1^{\infty }a\left(s\right)/sds=\infty$ and b(s) is quasi-increasing and $li{m}_{s\to \infty }b\left(s\right)=\infty$. Then the following statements for the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function Mf(x) are equivalent: (j) there exist positive constants $c_1$ and $s_0$ such that ${ʃ}_1^{s}a\left(t\right)/tdt\ge c_{1}b\left(c_{1}s\right)$ for all $s\ge s_0$; (jj) there exist positive constants $c_2$ and $c_3$ such that ${ʃ}_0^{2\pi }\Psi (\left(c_2\right)/{\left(\right|⨍|}_{}\left)\right|⨍\left(x\right)\left|\right)dx\le c_3+c_3{ʃ}_0^{2\pi }{\Phi (1/(\left|⨍\right|}_{}\left)\right)Mf\left(x\right)dx$ for all $⨍\in L^1\left(\right)$.

Let Ω be a nonatomic probability space, let X be a Banach function space over Ω, and let ℳ be the collection of all martingales on Ω. For $f={\left(fₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}₊}\in ℳ$, let Mf and Sf denote the maximal function and the square function of f, respectively. We give some necessary and sufficient conditions for X to have the property that if f, g ∈ ℳ and ${\left|\right|Mg\left|\right|}_X{\le \left|\right|Mf\left|\right|}_X$, then ${\left|\right|Sg\left|\right|}_X{\le C\left|\right|Sf\left|\right|}_X$, where C is a constant independent of f and g.

Let G be a locally compact group with a fixed left Haar measure. Given Young functions φ and ψ, we consider the Orlicz spaces $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)$ and $L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$ on a non-unimodular group G, and, among other things, we prove that under mild conditions on φ and ψ, the set $(f,g)\in L^{\phi }\left(G\right)\times L^{\psi }\left(G\right):f*g$ is well defined on G is σ-c-lower porous in $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)\times L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$. This answers a question raised by Głąb and Strobin in 2010 in a more general setting of Orlicz spaces. We also prove a similar result for non-compact locally compact groups.

Criteria for compactly locally uniformly rotund points in Orlicz spaces are given.