Let $(M,d)$ be a metric space, equipped with a Borel measure $\mu$ satisfying suitable compatibility conditions. An amalgam $A_p^q\left(M\right)$ is a space which looks locally like $L^p\left(M\right)$ but globally like $L^q\left(M\right)$. We consider the case where the measure $\mu \left(B\right(x,\rho )$ of the ball $B(x,\rho )$ with centre $x$ and radius $\rho$ behaves like a polynomial in $\rho$, and consider the mapping properties between amalgams of kernel operators where the kernel $kerK(x,y)$ behaves like $d(x,y{)}^{-a}$ when $d(x,y)\le 1$ and like $d(x,y{)}^{-b}$ when $d(x,y)\ge 1$. As an application, we describe Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev type regularity theorems...

Given a compact set $K\subset {ℂ}^N$, for each positive integer n, let $V^{\left(n\right)}\left(z\right)$ = $V_K^{\left(n\right)}\left(z\right)$ := sup$1/\left(degp\right)V_{p\left(K\right)}\left(p\left(z\right)\right)$: p holomorphic polynomial, 1 ≤ deg p ≤ n. These “extremal-like” functions $V_K^{\left(n\right)}$ are essentially one-variable in nature and always increase to the “true” several-variable (Siciak) extremal function, $V_K\left(z\right)$:= max[0, sup1/(deg p) log|p(z)|: p holomorphic polynomial, ${\left|\right|p\left|\right|}_K\le 1$]. Our main result is that if K is regular, then all of the functions $V_K^{\left(n\right)}$ are continuous; and their associated Robin functions ${\varrho }_{V_K^{\left(n\right)}}\left(z\right):=limsu{p}_{\left|\lambda \right|\to \infty }[V_K^{\left(n\right)}\left(\lambda z\right)-log\left(\right|\lambda \left|\right)]$ increase to ${\varrho }_K:={\varrho }_{V_K}$ for all z outside a pluripolar set....