Criteria of weighted inequalities in Orlicz classes for maximal functions defined on homogeneous type spaces

The necessary and sufficient conditions are derived in order that a strong type weighted inequality be fulfilled in Orlicz classes for scalar and vector-valued maximal functions defined on homogeneous type spaces. A weak type problem with weights is solved for vector-valued maximal functions.     

Extrapolation from A∞ weights and applications

We generalize the A_p extrapolation theorem of Rubio de Francia to A_∞ weights in the context of Muckenhoupt bases. Our result has several important features. First, it can be used to prove weak endpoint inequalities starting from strong-type inequalities, something which is impossible using the classical result. Second, it provides an alternative to the technique of good-λ inequalities for proving L^p norm inequalities relating operators. Third, it yields vector-valued inequalities without having to use the theory of Banach space valued operators. We give a number of applications to maximal functions, singular integrals, potential operators, commutators, multilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators, and multiparameter fractional integrals. In particular, we give new proofs, which completely avoid the good-λ inequalities, of Coifman's inequality relating singular integrals and the maximal operator, of the Fefferman-Stein inequality relating the maximal operator and the sharp maximal operator, and the Muckenhoupt-Wheeden inequality relating the fractional integral operator and the fractional maximal operator.     

New maximal functions and multiple weights for the multilinear Calderón-Zygmund theory

A multi(sub)linear maximal operator that acts on the product of m Lebesgue spaces and is smaller than the m-fold product of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is studied. The operator is used to obtain a precise control on multilinear singular integral operators of Calderón-Zygmund type and to build a theory of weights adapted to the multilinear setting. A natural variant of the operator which is useful to control certain commutators of multilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators with BMO functions is then considered. The optimal range of strong type estimates, a sharp end-point estimate, and weighted norm inequalities involving both the classical Muckenhoupt weights and the new multilinear ones are also obtained for the commutators.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of fractional maximal operators in local Morrey-type spaces

The problem of the boundedness of the fractional maximal operator _Mα$M_{\alpha }$, 0<α<n$0<\alpha <n$, in local and global Morrey-type spaces is reduced to the problem of the boundedness of the Hardy operator in weighted _Lp$L_p$-spaces on the cone of non-negative non-increasing functions. This allows obtaining sharp sufficient conditions for the boundedness for all admissible values of the parameters. Moreover, in case of local Morrey-type spaces, for some values of the parameters, these sufficient conditions coincide with the necessary ones.     

Weighted norm inequalities for operators of potential type and fractional maximal functions

In this paper, we study two-weight norm inequalities for operators of potential type in homogeneous spaces. We improve some of the results given in [6] and [8] by significantly weakening their hypotheses and by enlarging the class of operators to which they apply. We also show that corresponding results of Carleson type for upper half-spaces can be derived as corollaries of those for homogeneous spaces. As an application, we obtain some necessary and sufficient conditions for a large class of weighted norm inequalities for maximal functions under various assumptions on the measures or spaces involved.Research of the first author was supported in part by NSERC grant A5149.Research of the second author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS93-02991.     

Sufficient conditions for one-sided operators

In this article we give sufficient conditions on a pair of weight (w, v) for some one-sided operators to be bounded from L^p (v^p) to L^p (w^p). The operators we deal with include the one-sided fractional maximal operator and the one-sided singular integrals. For the first operator, necessary and sufficient conditions are known (see [8, 6]). These conditions usually amount to checking the boundedness of the operator on functions that are powers of the weights and are hard to check. Our conditions are of A_p type and are therefore easy to verify. Similar results for two-sided operators were obtained by C. Pérez in [9] and [10].     

Applications of generalized perron trees to maximal functions and density bases

In this article we give some new necessary conditions for subsets of the unit circle to give collections of rectangles (by means of orientations) which differentiate L^p-functions or give Hardy-Littlewood type maximal functions which are bounded on L^p, p>1. This is done by proving that a well-known method, the construction of a Perron Tree, can be applied to a larger collection of subsets of the unit circle than was earlier known. As applications, we prove a partial converse of a well-known result of Nagel et al. [6] regarding boundedness of maximal functions with respect to rectangles of lacunary directions, and prove a result regarding the cardinality of subsets of arithmetic progressions in sets of the type described above. Acknowledgements and Notes. This research was partially supported by NSERC.     

Weighted reverse weak type inequality for general maximal functions

Necessary and sufficient conditions are found to be imposed on a pair of weights, for which a weak type two-weighted reverse inequality holds, in the case of general maximal functions defined in homogenous type spaces.     

Heat-diffusion maximal operators for Laguerre semigroups with negative parameters

We prove L^p boundedness for the maximal operator of the heat semigroup associated to the Laguerre functions, , when the parameter α is greater than -1. Namely, the maximal operator is of strong type (p,p) if p>1 and , when -1<α<0. If α?0 there is strong type for 1<p?∞. The behavior at the end points is studied in detail.     

Regularity of fractional maximal functions through Fourier multipliers

We prove endpoint bounds for derivatives of fractional maximal functions with either smooth convolution kernel or lacunary set of radii in dimensions $n\ge 2$. We also show that the spherical fractional maximal function maps $L^p$ into a first order Sobolev space in dimensions $n\ge 5$.     

Weighted L<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis></Superscript>-inequalities for multi-parameter Riesz type potentials and strong fractional maximal operators

We prove weighted L ^p -inequalities for multi-parameter Riesz type potentials, strong fractional maximal operators and their dyadic counterparts. Our proofs avoid the Good-λ inequalities used earlier in the R ^m -case and are based on our integrated multi-parameter summation by parts lemma, that might be of independent interest.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for weighted Orlicz class inequalities for maximal functions and singular integrals. I

Criteria of various weak and strong type weighted inequalities are established for singular integrals and maximal functions defined on homogeneous type spaces in the Orlicz classes.     

The Bellman functions of dyadic-like maximal operators and related inequalities

For each p>1 we precisely evaluate the main Bellman functions associated with the dyadic maximal operator on and the dyadic Carleson imbedding theorem. Actually, we do that in the more general setting of tree-like maximal operators. These provide refinements of the sharp L^p inequalities for those operators. For this we introduce an effective linearization for such maximal operators on an adequate set of functions.     

On a relationship between the integrabilities of various maximal functions

It is shown that the right-sided, left-sided, and symmetric maximal functions of any measurable function can be integrable only simultaneously. The analogous statement is proved for the ergodic maximal functions.     

Estimates on fractional power dissipative equations in function spaces

We study the fractional power dissipative equations, whose fundamental semigroup is given by e^{−t(−Δ)α} with α>0. By using an argument of duality and interpolation, we extend space-time estimates of the fractional power dissipative equations in Lebesgue spaces to the Hardy spaces and the modulation spaces. These results are substantial extensions of some known results. As applications, we study both local and global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear fractional power dissipative equation u_t+(−Δ)^αu=|u|^mu for initial data in the modulation spaces.     

Minimization of the Ratio of Functions Defined as Sums of the Absolute Values

This paper addresses a new class of linearly constrained fractional programming problems where the objective function is defined as the ratio of two functions which are the sums of the absolute values of affine functions. This problem has an important application in financial optimization. This problem is a convex-convex type of fractional program which cannot be solved by standard algorithms. We propose a branch-and-bound algorithm and an integer programming algorithm. We demonstrate that a fairly large scale problem can be solved within a practical amount of time. The research of the first author was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Government of Japan, B(2) 15310122 and 15656025.     

Generalized tight p-frames and spectral bounds for Laplace-like operators

We prove sharp upper bounds for sums of eigenvalues (and other spectral functionals) of Laplace-like operators, including bi-Laplacians and fractional Laplacians. We show that among linear images of a highly symmetric domain, our spectral functionals are maximal on the original domain. We exploit the symmetries of the domain, and the operator, avoiding the necessity of finding good test functions for variational problems. This is especially important for fractional Laplacians, since exact solutions are not even known on intervals, making it hard to find good test functions.To achieve our goals we generalize tight p-fusion frames, to extract the best possible geometric results for domains with isometry groups admitting tight p-frames. Any such group generates a tight p-fusion frame via conjugations of a fixed projection matrix. We show that generalized tight p-frames can also be obtained by conjugations of an arbitrary rectangular matrix, with the frame constant depending on the singular values of the matrix.     

Positive Carathéodory interpolation on the polydisc

The positive Carathéodory interpolation problem in the Agler-Herglotz class on the polydisc is solved, along with a several variable version of the Naimark dilation theorem. In addition, the positive Carathéodory interpolation problem for general holomorphic functions is discussed and numerical results are presented.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for weighted Orlicz class inequalities for maximal functions and singular integrals. II

This paper continues the investigation of weight problems in Orlicz classes for maximal functions and singular integrals defined on homogeneous type spaces considered in [1].     

Inequalities related toH p smoothness of Sobolev type

By exploiting a class of maximal functions and Littlewood-Paley theory, a list of embedding inequalities onH ^p-Sobolev spaces andH ^p boundedness results for Riesz and Bessel potentials are obtained at one stroke.This work was supported in part by the Chung-Ang University Academic Research Special Grants, 1997.