INTERPOLATION SPACES BETWEEN H^1 AND L^∞ ON SPACES OF HOMOGENEOUS TYPE

Using the maximal function characterization of Hardy spaces,we study the interpolation spaces between H^1 and L^∞on spaces of homogeneous type.     

Generalized Hardy spaces

Hardy spaces with generalized parameter are introduced following the maximal characterization approach. As particular cases, they include the classical Hp spaces and the Hardy-Lorentz spaces H^p,q. Real interpolation results with function parameter are obtained, Based on them, the behavior of some classical operators is studied in this generalized setting.     

Commutators of fractional integral operators on Vanishing-Morrey spaces

In this note we prove a sufficient condition for commutators of fractional integral operators to belong to Vanishing Morrey spaces VL ^p,λ. In doing this we use an extension on Morrey spaces of an inequality by Fefferman and Stein concerning the sharp maximal function and the fractional maximal function and related Morrey inequalities.      

A decomposition into atoms of distributions on spaces of homogeneous type

A maximal function is introduced for distributions acting on certain spaces of Lipschitz functions defined on spaces of homogeneous type. A decomposition into atoms for distributions whose maximal functions belong to L^p, p ? 1, is obtained, as well as, an approximation theorem of these distributions by Lipschitz functions.     

Iterated maximal functions in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces

In this paper we study the iterated Hardy?CLittlewood maximal operator in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces with exponent allowed to reach the value 1. We use modulars where the L ^p(·)-modular is perturbed by a logarithmic-type function, and the results hold also in the more general context of such Musielak?COrlicz spaces.     

Basic functional properties of certain scale of rearrangement-invariant spaces

We define a new scale of function spaces governed by a norm-like functional based on a combination of a rearrangement-invariant norm, the elementary maximal function, and powers. A particular instance of such spaces surfaced recently in connection with optimality of target function spaces in general Sobolev embeddings involving upper Ahlfors regular measures; however, a thorough analysis of these structures has not been carried out. We present a variety of results on these spaces including their basic functional properties, their relations to customary function spaces and mutual embeddings, and, in a particular situation, a characterization of their associate structures. We discover a new one-parameter path of function spaces leading from a Lebesgue space to a Zygmund class and we compare it to the classical one.     

Center manifolds and contractions on a scale of Banach spaces

We give a new proof for the existence of a C^k-center manifold at a nonhyperbolic equilibrium point of a finite-dimensional vector field of class C^k. The problem is reduced to a fixed point problem on a scale of Banach spaces; these Banach spaces consist of mappings with a certain maximal exponential growth at infinity. We give conditions under which there is a unique fixed point depending differentiably on the parameters; the main difficulty is that the mappings under consideration become only differentiable after composition with appropriate embeddings on the scale of Banach spaces.     

New Lorentz spaces for the restricted weak-type Hardy's inequalities

Associated to the class of restricted weak-type weights for the Hardy operator R_p, we find a new class of Lorentz spaces for which the normability property holds. This result is analogous to the characterization given by Sawyer for the classical Lorentz spaces. We also show that these new spaces are very natural to study the existence of equivalent norms described in terms of the maximal function.     

A pointwise characterization of functions of bounded variation on metric spaces

We give a new characterization of the space of functions of bounded variation in terms of a pointwise inequality connected to the maximal function of a measure. The characterization is new even in Euclidean spaces and it holds also in general metric spaces.     

Operator-valued martingale transforms in rearrangement invariant spaces and applications

In this paper the operator-valued martingale transform inequalities in rearrangement invariant function spaces are proved. Some well-known results are generalized and unified. Applications are given to classical operators such as the maximal operator and the p-variation operator of vector-valued martingales, then we can very easily obtain some new vector-valued martingale inequalities in rearrangement invariant function spaces. These inequalities are closely related to both the geometrical properties of the underlying Banach spaces and the Boyd indices of the rearrangement invariant function spaces. Finally we give an equivalent characterization of UMD Banach lattices, and also prove the Fefferman-Stein theorem in the rearrangement invariant function spaces setting.     

Atomic decomposition of Besov-type and Triebel-Lizorkin-type spaces

Abstract With the help of the maximal function caracterizations of the Besov-type space Bs,τp,q and the TriebelLizorkin-type space Fs,τp,q,we present the atomic decomposition of these function spaces.Our results cover the results on classical Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces by taking τ=0.     

On Lipschitz-type maximal functions and their smoothness spaces

In a recent monograph (cf. No. 293 of the Memoirs of the Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (1984)) DeVore and Sharpley study maximal functions of integral type and their related smoothness spaces. One of their central results gives an embedding theorem for the smoothness spaces in terms of Besov spaces. In this paper we consider the related problem when the Besov spaces are substituted by the so-called A-spaces introduced by Popov (take the τ-modulus instead of the ω-modulus). We will define Lipschitz-type maximal functions whose smoothness spaces satisfy a corresponding embedding theorem in terms of A-spaces. By well-known results new insights can only be expected for functions satisfying low order smoothness conditions and, therefore, only function spaces generated by first order differences are considered.     

Characterisations of function spaces of generalised smoothness

We investigate function spaces of generalised smoothness of Besov and Triebel–Lizorkin type. Equivalent quasi-norms in terms of maximal functions and local means are given. An atomic decomposition theorem for this type of spaces is proved. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 46E35     

Conditional expectations on Riesz spaces

Conditional expectations operators acting on Riesz spaces are shown to commute with a class of principal band projections. Using the above commutation property, conditional expectation operators on Riesz spaces are shown to be averaging operators. Here the theory of f-algebras is used when defining multiplication on the Riesz spaces. This leads to the extension of these conditional expectation operators to their so-called natural domains, i.e., maximal domains for which the operators are both averaging operators and conditional expectations. The natural domain is in many aspects analogous to L¹.     

Hardy and BMO spaces associated to divergence form elliptic operators

Consider a second order divergence form elliptic operator L with complex bounded measurable coefficients. In general, operators based on L, such as the Riesz transform or square function, may lie beyond the scope of the Calderón–Zygmund theory. They need not be bounded in the classical Hardy, BMO and even some L ^p spaces. In this work we develop a theory of Hardy and BMO spaces associated to L, which includes, in particular, a molecular decomposition, maximal and square function characterizations, duality of Hardy and BMO spaces, and a John–Nirenberg inequality. S. Hofmann was supported by the National Science Foundation.     

Partial ovoids and partial spreads in hermitian polar spaces

We present improved lower bounds on the sizes of small maximal partial ovoids in the classical hermitian polar spaces, and improved upper bounds on the sizes of large maximal partial spreads in the classical hermitian polar spaces. Of particular importance is the presented upper bound on the size of a maximal partial spread of H(3,q ²). For q = 2,3, the presented upper bound is sharp. For q = 3, our results confirm via theoretical arguments properties, deduced by computer searches performed by Ebert and Hirschfeld, for the largest partial spreads of H(3,9). An overview of the status regarding these results is given in two summarizing tables. The similar results for the classical symplectic and orthogonal polar spaces are presented in De Beule et al. [8].      

On M-separability of countable spaces and function spaces

We study M-separability as well as some other combinatorial versions of separability. In particular, we show that the set-theoretic hypothesis b=d implies that the class of selectively separable spaces is not closed under finite products, even for the spaces of continuous functions with the topology of pointwise convergence. We also show that there exists no maximal M-separable countable space in the model of Frankiewicz, Shelah, and Zbierski in which all closed P-subspaces of ω^* admit an uncountable family of nonempty open mutually disjoint subsets. This answers several questions of Bella, Bonanzinga, Matveev, and Tkachuk.     

Maximal pseudocompact spaces and the Preiss-Simon property

We study maximal pseudocompact spaces calling them also MP-spaces. We show that the product of a maximal pseudocompact space and a countable compact space is maximal pseudocompact. If X is hereditarily maximal pseudocompact then X × Y is hereditarily maximal pseudocompact for any first countable compact space Y. It turns out that hereditary maximal pseudocompactness coincides with the Preiss-Simon property in countably compact spaces. In compact spaces, hereditary MP-property is invariant under continuous images while this is not true for the class of countably compact spaces. We prove that every Fréchet-Urysohn compact space is homeomorphic to a retract of a compact MP-space. We also give a ZFC example of a Fréchet-Urysohn compact space which is not maximal pseudocompact. Therefore maximal pseudocompactness is not preserved by continuous images in the class of compact spaces.     

Best approach regions for potential spaces

We characterize the approach regions so that the non-tangential maximal function is of weak-type on potential spaces, for which we use a simple argument involving Carleson measure estimates.