Equivalent Characterizations for Boundedness of Maximal Singular Integrals on ax+b-Groups

Let (S,d,ρ) be the affine group ℝ ⁿ ⋉ℝ⁺ endowed with the left-invariant Riemannian metric d and the right Haar measure ρ, which is of exponential growth at infinity. In this paper, for any linear operator T on (S,d,ρ) associated with a kernel K satisfying certain integral size condition and H?rmander’s condition, the authors prove that the following four statements regarding the corresponding maximal singular integral T ^∗ are equivalent: T ^∗ is bounded from L_c^￥L_{c}^{\infty} to BMO, T ^∗ is bounded on L ^p for all p∈(1,∞), T ^∗ is bounded on L ^p for some p∈(1,∞) and T ^∗ is bounded from L ¹ to L ^1,∞. As applications of these results, for spectral multipliers of a distinguished Laplacian on (S,d,ρ) satisfying certain Mihlin-H?rmander type condition, the authors obtain that their maximal singular integrals are bounded from L_c^￥L_{c}^{\infty} to BMO, from L ¹ to L ^1,∞, and on L ^p for all p∈(1,∞).