We give some explicit values of the constants $C_1$ and $C_2$ in the inequality $C_1/sin\left(\frac{\pi }{p}\right)\le {\left|P\right|}_p\le C_2/sin\left(\frac{\pi }{p}\right)$ where ${\left|P\right|}_p$ denotes the norm of the Bergman projection on the $L^p$ space.

Necessary and sufficient conditions are shown in order that the inequalities of the form $\varrho \left(M_{\mu }f>\lambda \right)\Phi \left(\lambda \right)\le C{ʃ}_X\Psi \left(C\right|f\left(x\right)\left|\right)\sigma \left(x\right)d\mu$, or $\varrho \left(M_{\mu }f>\lambda \right)\le C{ʃ}_X\Phi (C{\lambda }^{-1}|f\left(x\right)\left|\right)\sigma \left(x\right)d\mu$ hold with some positive C independent of λ > 0 and a μ-measurable function f, where (X,μ) is a space with a complete doubling measure μ, $M_{\mu }$ is the maximal operator with respect to μ, Φ, Ψ are arbitrary Young functions, and ϱ, σ are weights, not necessarily doubling.

Necessary and sufficient conditions governing two-weight $L^p$ norm estimates for multiple Hardy and potential operators are presented. Two-weight inequalities for potentials defined on nonhomogeneous spaces are also discussed. Sketches of the proofs for most of the results are given.