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 $\varphi \in L^{p,q}$, ${\left|\right|ℳ\varphi \left|\right|}_{r,\infty }\le C_{p,q,r}{\left|\right|\varphi \left|\right|}_{p,q}$.

Let ω be a Békollé-Bonami weight. We give a complete characterization of the positive measures μ such that ${\int }_{}|M_{\omega }{f\left(z\right)|}^{q}d\mu \left(z\right)\le C({\int }_{}{\left|f\left(z\right)\right|}^p{\omega \left(z\right)dV\left(z\right))}^{q/p}$ and $\mu \left(z\in :Mf\left(z\right)>\lambda \right)\le C/\left({\lambda }^q\right)({\int }_{}|f\left(z\right){{|}^p\omega \left(z\right)dV\left(z\right))}^{q/p}$, where $M_{\omega }$ is the weighted Hardy-Littlewood maximal function on the upper half-plane and 1 ≤ p,q <; ∞.

This paper studies a new maximal operator introduced by Hytönen, McIntosh and Portal in 2008 for functions taking values in a Banach space. The $L^p$-boundedness of this operator depends on the range space; certain requirements on type and cotype are present for instance. The original Euclidean definition of the maximal function is generalized to σ-finite measure spaces with filtrations and the $L^p$-boundedness is shown not to depend on the underlying measure space or the filtration. Martingale...

Let μ be a nonnegative Radon measure on ${ℝ}^d$ which satisfies μ(B(x,r)) ≤ Crⁿ for any $x\in {ℝ}^d$ and r > 0 and some positive constants C and n ∈ (0,d]. In this paper, some weighted norm inequalities with $A_p^{\varrho }\left(\mu \right)$ weights of Muckenhoupt type are obtained for maximal singular integral operators with such a measure μ, via certain weighted estimates with $A_{\infty }^{\varrho }\left(\mu \right)$ weights of Muckenhoupt type involving the John-Strömberg maximal operator and the John-Strömberg sharp maximal operator, where ϱ,p ∈ [1,∞).

Let ${\sigma }_i$, i = 1,2,3, denote positive Borel measures on ℝⁿ, let denote the usual collection of dyadic cubes in ℝⁿ and let K: → [0,∞) be a map. We give a characterization of a trilinear embedding theorem, that is, of the inequality ${\sum }_{Q\in }K\left(Q\right){\prod }_{i=1}^3|{\int }_Q{f}_{i}d{\sigma }_i|\le C{\prod }_{i=1}^3\left|\right|f_i{\left|\right|}_{L^{p_i}\left(d{\sigma }_i\right)}$ in terms of a discrete Wolff potential and Sawyer’s checking condition, when 1 < p₁,p₂,p₃ < ∞ and 1/p₁ + 1/p₂ + 1/p₃ ≥ 1.

Let f be a measurable function defined on ℝ. For each n ∈ ℤ we consider the average $Aₙf\left(x\right)=2^{-n}{\int }_x^{x+2ⁿ}f$. The square function is defined as $Sf\left(x\right)=({\sum }_{n=-\infty }^{\infty }|Aₙf\left(x\right)-A_{n-1}f\left(x\right){\left|²\right)}^{1/2}$. The local version of this operator, namely the operator $S₁f\left(x\right)=({\sum }_{n=-\infty }^0|Aₙf\left(x\right)-A_{n-1}f\left(x\right){\left|²\right)}^{1/2}$, is of interest in ergodic theory and it has been extensively studied. In particular it has been proved [3] that it is of weak type (1,1), maps $L^p$ into itself (p > 1) and $L^{\infty }$ into BMO. We prove that the operator S not only maps $L^{\infty }$ into BMO but it also maps BMO into BMO. We also prove that the $L^p$ boundedness...

Let $M_S$ denote the strong maximal operator. Let $M_x$ and $M_y$ denote the one-dimensional Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators in the horizontal and vertical directions in ℝ². A function h supported on the unit square Q = [0,1]×[0,1] is exhibited such that ${\int }_Q{M}_y{M}_{x}h<\infty$ but ${\int }_Q{M}_x{M}_{y}h=\infty$. It is shown that if f is a function supported on Q such that ${\int }_Q{M}_y{M}_{x}f<\infty$ but ${\int }_Q{M}_x{M}_{y}f=\infty$, then there exists a set A of finite measure in ℝ² such that ${\int }_A{M}_{S}f=\infty$.

An RD-space $𝒳$ is a space of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss with the additional property that a reverse doubling property holds. The authors prove that for a space of homogeneous type $𝒳$ having “dimension” $n$, there exists a $p_0\in (n/(n+1),1)$ such that for certain classes of distributions, the $L^p\left(𝒳\right)$ quasi-norms of their radial maximal functions and grand maximal functions are equivalent when $p\in (p_0,\infty ]$. This result yields a radial maximal function characterization for Hardy spaces on $𝒳$. ...

A necessary and sufficient condition is given on the basis of a rare maximal function $M_l$ such that $M_{l}f\in L¹\left([0,1]\right)$ implies f ∈ L log L([0,1]).

We prove three results concerning convolution operators and lacunary maximal functions associated to dilates of measures. First we obtain an H¹ to $L^{1,\infty }$ bound for lacunary maximal operators under a dimensional assumption on the underlying measure and an assumption on an $L^p$ regularity bound for some p > 1. Secondly, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for L² boundedness of lacunary maximal operator associated to averages over convex curves in the plane. Finally we prove an $L^p$...

The classical Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded not only on the classical Lebesgue spaces $L_p\left({ℝ}^d\right)$ (in the case $p>1$), but (in the case when $1/p(·)$ is log-Hölder continuous and $p_{-}=inf\{p\left(x\right):x\in {ℝ}^d\}>1$) on the variable Lebesgue spaces $L_{p(·)}\left({ℝ}^d\right)$, too. Furthermore, the classical Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is of weak-type $(1,1)$. In the present note we generalize Besicovitch’s covering theorem for the so-called $\gamma$-rectangles. We introduce a general maximal operator $M_s^{\gamma ,\delta }$ and with the help of generalized $\Phi$-functions, the strong-...

The main aim of this paper is to prove that the maximal operator ${\sigma }^{}$ is bounded from the Hardy space $H_{1/2}$ to weak-$L_{1/2}$ and is not bounded from $H_{1/2}$ to $L_{1/2}$.

We study the boundedness of the one-sided operator $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$ between the weighted spaces $L^p\left(M¯w\right)$ and $L^p\left(w\right)$ for every weight w. If λ = 2/p whenever 1 < p < 2, and in the case p = 1 for λ > 2, we prove the weak type of $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$. For every λ > 1 and p = 2, or λ > 2/p and 1 < p < 2, the boundedness of this operator is obtained. For p > 2 and λ > 1, we obtain the boundedness of $g{⁺}_{\lambda ,\phi }$ from $L^p\left({\left(M¯\right)}^{[p/2]+1}w\right)$ to $L^p\left(w\right)$, where ${\left(M¯\right)}^k$ denotes the operator M¯ iterated k times.

We study the Hardy inequality and derive the maximal theorem of Hardy and Littlewood in the context of grand Lebesgue spaces, considered when the underlying measure space is the interval (0,1) ⊂ ℝ, and the maximal function is localized in (0,1). Moreover, we prove that the inequality ${\left|\right|Mf\left|\right|}_{p),w}{\le c\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{p),w}$ holds with some c independent of f iff w belongs to the well known Muckenhoupt class $A_p$, and therefore iff ${\left|\right|Mf\left|\right|}_{p,w}{\le c\left|\right|f\left|\right|}_{p,w}$ for some c independent of f. Some results of similar type are discussed for the case of small...

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.

We investigate the construction of Carleson measures from families of multilinear integral operators applied to tuples of $L^{\infty }$ and BMO functions. We show that if the family $R_t$ of multilinear operators has cancellation in each variable, then for BMO functions b₁, ..., bₘ, the measure $|R_t(b₁,...,bₘ)\left(x\right)|²dxdt/t$ is Carleson. However, if the family of multilinear operators has cancellation in all variables combined, this result is still valid if $b_j$ are $L^{\infty }$ functions, but it may fail if $b_j$ are unbounded BMO functions, as...

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...

We define a new function space $B$, which contains in particular BMO, BV, and $W^{1/p,p}$, $1<p<\infty$. We investigate its embedding into Lebesgue and Marcinkiewicz spaces. We present several inequalities involving $L^p$ norms of integer-valued functions in $B$. We introduce a significant closed subspace, $B_0$, of $B$, containing in particular VMO and $W^{1/p,p}$, $1\le p<\infty$. The above mentioned estimates imply in particular that integer-valued functions belonging to $B_0$ are necessarily constant. This framework provides a “common roof”...

We introduce a maximal function (denoted by π̅ ) on the tent spaces $T^p\left(ℝ{₊}^{n+1}\right)$, 0 < p < ∞, of Coifman, Meyer and Stein [8]. We prove a good-λ estimate of subgaussian type for this maximal function and for the square function of tent spaces, leading to integrability results for π̅. We deduce convergence results for the singular integral defining π.

The main aim of this paper is to prove that the maximal operator $\sigma ₀*:=supₙ|{\sigma }_{n,n}|$ of the Fejér means of the double Vilenkin-Fourier series is not bounded from the Hardy space $H_{1/2}$ to the space weak-$L_{1/2}$.

Let $B_p$ be the Ariõ-Muckenhoupt weight class which controls the weighted $L^p$-norm inequalities for the Hardy operator on non-increasing functions. We replace the constant p by a function p(x) and examine the associated $L^{p\left(x\right)}$-norm inequalities of the Hardy operator.

The aim of this paper is to establish transference and restriction theorems for maximal operators defined by multipliers on the Hardy spaces $H^p\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ and $H^p{(}^n)$, 0 < p ≤ 1, which generalize the results of Kenig-Tomas for the case p > 1. We prove that under a mild regulation condition, an $L^{\infty }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ function m is a maximal multiplier on $H^p\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ if and only if it is a maximal multiplier on $H^p{(}^n)$. As an application, the restriction of maximal multipliers to lower dimensional Hardy spaces is considered. ...

Let d > 0 be a positive real number and n ≥ 1 a positive integer and define the operator $S_d$ and its associated global maximal operator $S*{*}_d$ by $\left(S_{d}f\right)(x,t)=1/\left(2\pi \right)ⁿ{\int }_{ℝⁿ}{e}^{ix·\xi }{e}^{{it\left|\xi \right|}^d}f̂\left(\xi \right)d\xi$, f ∈ (ℝⁿ), x ∈ ℝⁿ, t ∈ ℝ, $(S*{*}_{d}f)\left(x\right)=su{p}_{t\in ℝ}|1/\left(2\pi \right)ⁿ{\int }_{ℝⁿ}{e}^{ix·\xi }{e}^{{it\left|\xi \right|}^d}f̂\left(\xi \right)d\xi |$, f ∈ (ℝⁿ), x ∈ ℝⁿ, where f̂ is the Fourier transform of f and (ℝⁿ) is the Schwartz class of rapidly decreasing functions. If d = 2, $S_{d}f$ is the solution to the initial value problem for the free Schrödinger equation (cf. (1.3) in this paper). We prove that for radial functions f ∈ (ℝⁿ), if n ≥ 3, 0 < d ≤ 2, and p ≥...

Let Y be a Banach space and let $S\subset L_p$ be a subspace of an $L_p$ space, for some p ∈ (1,∞). We consider two operators B and C acting on S and Y respectively and satisfying the so-called maximal regularity property. Let ℬ and be their natural extensions to $S\left(Y\right)\subset L_p\left(Y\right)$. We investigate conditions that imply that ℬ + is closed and has the maximal regularity property. Extending theorems of Lamberton and Weis, we show in particular that this holds if Y is a UMD Banach lattice and $e^{-tB}$ is a positive contraction...

We give a new proof using the classic Calderón-Zygmund decomposition that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on the variable Lebesgue space $L^{p(\cdot )}$ whenever the exponent function $p(\cdot )$ satisfies log-Hölder continuity conditions. We include the case where $p(\cdot )$ assumes the value infinity. The same proof also shows that the fractional maximal operator $M_a$, , maps $L^{p(\cdot )}$ into $L^{q(\cdot )}$, where $1/p(\cdot )-1/q(\cdot )=a/n$.

For an injective map τ acting on the dyadic subintervals of the unit interval [0,1) we define the rearrangement operator $T_s$, 0 < s < 2, to be the linear extension of the map $\left(h_I\right)/{\left(\right|I|}^{1/s})\mapsto \left(h_{\tau \left(I\right)}\right)\left(\right|\tau \left(I\right){|}^{1/s})$, where $h_I$ denotes the $L^{\infty }$-normalized Haar function supported on the dyadic interval I. We prove the following extrapolation result: If there exists at least one 0 < s₀ < 2 such that $T_{s₀}$ is bounded on $H^{s₀}$, then for all 0 < s < 2 the operator $T_s$ is bounded on $H^s$.

We characterize, in terms of X, the extensional dimension of the Stone-Čech corona βX∖X of a locally compact and Lindelöf space X. The non-Lindelöf case is also settled in terms of extending proper maps with values in $I^{\tau }\setminus L$, where L is a finite complex. Further, for a finite complex L, an uncountable cardinal τ and a $Z_{\tau }$-set X in the Tikhonov cube $I^{\tau }$ we find a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of $I^{\tau }\setminus X$, for X to be in the class AE([L]). We also introduce a concept of a proper absolute...

Let ${ℒ}_1=-\Delta +V$ be a Schrödinger operator and let ${ℒ}_2={(-\Delta )}^2+V^2$ be a Schrödinger type operator on ${ℝ}^n$ $(n\ge 5)$, where $V\ne 0$ is a nonnegative potential belonging to certain reverse Hölder class $B_s$ for $s\ge n/2$. The Hardy type space $H_{{ℒ}_2}^1$ is defined in terms of the maximal function with respect to the semigroup $\left\{{\mathrm{e}}^{-t{ℒ}_2}\right\}$ and it is identical to the Hardy space $H_{{ℒ}_1}^1$ established by Dziubański and Zienkiewicz. In this article, we prove the $L^p$-boundedness of the commutator ${ℛ}_b=bℛf-ℛ\left(bf\right)$ generated by the Riesz transform $ℛ={\nabla }^2{ℒ}_2^{-1/2}$, where $b\in {\mathrm{BMO}}_{\theta }\left(\rho \right)$, which is larger...

CONTENTSIntroduction.......................................................................................................................................................... 5Chapter I. Some preliminary lemmas............................................................................................................ 8Chapter II. Weighted $H^p$ spaces of analytic functions.......................................................................... 13 1. Behaviour at the boundary..........................................................................................................................

In this paper we study the regularity properties of the one-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators ${ℳ}^{+}$ and ${ℳ}^{-}$. More precisely, we prove that ${ℳ}^{+}$ and ${ℳ}^{-}$ map $W^{1,p}\left(ℝ\right)\to W^{1,p}\left(ℝ\right)$ with $1<p<\infty$, boundedly and continuously. In addition, we show that the discrete versions $M^{+}$ and $M^{-}$ map $\mathrm{BV}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)\to \mathrm{BV}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$ boundedly and map $l^1\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)\to \mathrm{BV}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$ continuously. Specially, we obtain the sharp variation inequalities of $M^{+}$ and $M^{-}$, that is, $$\mathrm{Var}\left(M^{+}\left(f\right)\right)\le \mathrm{Var}\left(f\right)\text{and}\mathrm{Var}\left(M^{-}\left(f\right)\right)\le \mathrm{Var}\left(f\right)$$ if $f\in \mathrm{BV}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$, where $\mathrm{Var}\left(f\right)$ is the total variation of $f$ on $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathrm{BV}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$ is the set of all functions $f:\mathbb{Z}\to ℝ$ satisfying $\mathrm{Var}\left(f\right)<\infty$.

We study continuity envelopes of function spaces $B_{p,q}^s(ℝⁿ,w)$ and $F_{p,q}^s(ℝⁿ,w)$ where the weight belongs to the Muckenhoupt class ₁. This essentially extends partial forerunners in [13, 14]. We also indicate some applications of these results.

We consider the maximal regularity problem for the discrete time evolution equation $u_{n+1}-Tuₙ=fₙ$ for all n ∈ ℕ₀, u₀ = 0, where T is a bounded operator on a UMD space X. We characterize the discrete maximal regularity of T by two types of conditions: firstly by R-boundedness properties of the discrete time semigroup ${\left(Tⁿ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}₀}$ and of the resolvent R(λ,T), secondly by the maximal regularity of the continuous time evolution equation u’(t) - Au(t) = f(t) for all t > 0, u(0) = 0, where A:= T - I. By recent...

We investigate the transport equation ${\partial }_{t}u(t,x)+b(t,x)·D_{x}u(t,x)=0$. Our result improves the classical criteria of uniqueness of weak solutions in the case of irregular coefficients: b ∈ BV, $di{v}_{x}b\in BMO$. To obtain our result we use a procedure similar to DiPerna and Lions’s one developed for Sobolev vector fields. We apply renormalization theory for BV vector fields and logarithmic type inequalities to obtain energy estimates.

We prove three theorems on linear operators $T_{\tau ,p}:H_p\left(ℬ\right)\to H_p$ induced by rearrangement of a subsequence of a Haar system. We find a sufficient and necessary condition for $T_{\tau ,p}$ to be continuous for 0 < p < ∞.