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In connection with the $A_{\varphi }$ classes of weights (see [K-T] and [B-K]), we study, in the context of Orlicz spaces, the corresponding reverse-Hölder classes $R{H}_{\varphi }$. We prove that when ϕ is ${\Delta }_2$ and has lower index greater than one, the class $R{H}_{\varphi }$ coincides with some reverse-Hölder class $R{H}_q,q>1$. For more general ϕ we still get $R{H}_{\varphi }\subset A_{\infty }={\bigcup }_{q>1}R{H}_q$ although the intersection of all these $R{H}_{\varphi }$ gives a proper subset of ${\bigcap }_{q>1}R{H}_q$.

Let ϕ and ψ be functions defined on [0,∞) taking the value zero at zero and with non-negative continuous derivative. Under very mild extra assumptions we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the fractional maximal operator $M_{\Omega }^{\alpha }$, associated to an open bounded set Ω, to be bounded from the Orlicz space $L^{\psi }\left(\Omega \right)$ into $L^{\varphi }\left(\Omega \right)$, 0 ≤ α < n. For functions ϕ of finite upper type these results can be extended to the Hilbert transform f̃ on the one-dimensional torus and to the fractional integral operator $I_{\Omega }^{\alpha }$, 0...