In this paper we refine an inequality for infinite series due to Astala, Gehring and Hayman, and sharpen and extend a Holder-type inequality due to Daykin and Eliezer.

We generalize a well-known separation condition of Everitt and Giertz to a class of weighted symmetric partial differential operators defined on domains in ${ℝ}^n$. Also, for symmetric second-order ordinary differential operators we show that ${lim\; sup}_{t\to c}{\left(p{q}^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}/q^2=\theta <2$ where $c$ is a singular point guarantees separation of $-{\left(p{y}^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}+qy$ on its minimal domain and extend this criterion to the partial differential setting. As a particular example it is shown that $-\Delta y+qy$ is separated on its minimal domain if $q$ is superharmonic. For $n=1$ the criterion...

Let s* denote the maximal function associated with the rectangular partial sums $s_{mn}(x,y)$ of a given double function series with coefficients $c_{jk}$. The following generalized Hardy-Littlewood inequality is investigated: ${\left|\right|s*\left|\right|}_{p,\mu }\le C_{p,\alpha ,\beta }{{\Sigma }_{j=0}^{\infty }{\Sigma }_{k=0}^{\infty }{\left(j̅\right)}^{p-\alpha -2}{\left(k̅\right)}^{p-\beta -2}{\left|c_{jk}\right|}^p}^{1/p}$, where ξ̅=max(ξ,1), 0 < p < ∞, and μ is a suitable positive Borel measure. We give sufficient conditions on $c_{jk}$ and μ under which the above Hardy-Littlewood inequality holds. Several variants of this inequality are also examined. As a consequence, the ||·||p,μ-convergence property of $s_{mn}(x,y)$...