Local Tb theorem with L2 testing conditions and general measures: square functions

Local Tb theorems with L ^p type testing conditions, which are not scale invariant, have been studied widely in the case of the Lebesgue measure. In the non-homogeneous world local Tb theorems have only been proved assuming scale invariant (L ^∞ or BMO) testing conditions. In this paper, for the first time, we overcome these obstacles in the non-homogeneous world, and prove a nonhomogeneous local Tb theorem with L ² type testing conditions. This paper is in the setting of the vertical and conical square functions defined using general measures and kernels. On the technique side, we demonstrate a trick of inserting Calderón–Zygmund stopping data of a fixed function into the construction of the twisted martingale difference operators. This built-in control of averages is an alternative to Carleson embedding.