Abstract
Let T be the multilinear square operator, respectively with certain smooth kernels and non-smooth kernels defined in (Xue and Yan in J. Math. Anal. Appl. 422:1342-1362, 2015) and (Hormozi et al. in arXiv preprint, 2015), and let \(T^{*}\) be its corresponding maximal operator. In this paper, we prove the vector-valued weighted norm boundedness for T and \(T^{*}\) and also establish multiple weighted inequalities for their corresponding iterated commutator generated by the vector-valued multilinear operator and BMO function.
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1 Introduction
The importance of the multilinear Littlewood-Paley g-function and related multilinear Littlewood-Paley type estimates was shown in PDE and other fields, one can see the works by Coifman et al. [3, 4], David and Journe [5], and also by Fabes et al. [6–8]. Moreover, a class of multilinear square functions was considered in [8], which was used for Kato’s problem.
Recently, Xue et al. [9] introduced the multilinear-Paley g-function with a convolution-type kernel in the following way:
and obtained the strong \(L^{p_{1}}(\omega_{1})\times\cdots\times L^{p_{m}}(\omega _{m})\) to \(L^{p}(v_{\vec{\omega}})\) boundedness and the weak type results. Later, Xue and Yan [1] studied a class of multilinear square functions associated with the following more general non-convolution-type kernels.
Definition 1
(Integral smooth condition of C-Z type I) (see [1])
For any \(v\in(0,\infty)\), let \(K_{v}(x,y_{1},\ldots,y_{m})\) be a locally integrable function defined away from the diagonal \(x=y_{1}=\cdots=y_{m}\) in \((\mathbb {R}^{n})^{m+1}\) and denote \(\vec{y}=(y_{1},\ldots,y_{m})\). We say that \(K_{v}\) satisfies the integral condition of C-Z type I, if for some positive constants γ, A, and \(B>1\), the following inequalities hold:
whenever \(|z-x|\leq\frac{1}{B}\max_{j=1}^{m}{|x-y_{j}|}\); and
for any \(i\in\{1,\ldots,m\}\), whenever \(|y_{i}-y_{i}'|\leq\frac{1}{B}|x-y_{i}|\).
We define the multilinear square function T by
for any \(\vec{f}=(f_{1},\ldots,f_{m})\in\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\times \cdots\times\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\) and for all \(x\notin\bigcap_{j=1}^{m} \operatorname{supp} f_{j}\).
In order to state their results, we first give the definition of multiple weights \(A_{\vec{p}}\).
Definition 2
(Multiple weights) (see [10])
Let \(1\leq p_{1},\ldots, p_{m} <\infty\), and \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{p_{m}}\). For any \(\vec{\omega} =(\omega_{1},\ldots,\omega_{m})\), denote \(v_{\vec{\omega}}=\prod_{i=1}^{m} \omega_{i}^{p/p_{i}}\). If
holds, we say that ω⃗ satisfies the \(A_{\vec{p}}\) condition. Specially, when \(p_{i}=1\), \((\frac{1}{|B|}\int_{B}\omega _{i}^{1-p_{i}'} )^{1/p_{i}'}\) is understood as \((\inf_{B} \omega_{i})^{-1}\).
We will need the easy fact: if each \(\omega_{j}\in A_{p_{j}}\), then \(\prod_{j=1}^{m}A_{p_{j}}\subset A_{\vec{p}}\).
In [10], the multilinear maximal operator \(\mathcal{M}\) was defined by
where the supremum is taken over all cubes Q containing x. The easy fact is that \(\mathcal{M}(\vec{f})(x)\leq\prod_{i=1}^{m} Mf_{i}(x)\), where M is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator.
Theorem A
(see [1])
Let T be the multilinear square operator defined in (1.4) with the kernel satisfying the integral smooth condition of C-Z type I. Let \(1< p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\) and \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\). If ω⃗ satisfies the \(A_{\vec{p}}\) condition, there exists a constant C such that
Theorem B
(see [1])
Let T be the operator defined in (1.4) with the kernel satisfying the integral smooth condition of C-Z type I. Let \(0<\delta<1/m\), the following inequality holds:
for any bounded and compact supported functions \(f_{i}\), \(i=1, \ldots, m\).
In order to extend it to a more general case, we recall a class of integral operators \(\{A_{t}\}_{t>0}\) defined in [11], where the operators \(A_{t}\) associated with the kernels \(a_{t}(x,y)\) are defined by
for every function \(f\in L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\), \(1\leq p\leq\infty\), and \(a_{t}(x,y)\) satisfies the following size condition:
where h is a positive, bounded, decreasing function satisfying
for some \(\eta>0\). The above conditions indicate that for some \(C>0\) and all \(0<\eta\leq\eta'\), the kernels \(a_{t}(x,y)\) satisfy
Assumption (H1)
Assume that for each \(i=1, \ldots, m\), there exist operators \(\{A_{t}^{(i)}\}_{t>0}\) with kernels \(a_{t}^{(i)}(x,y)\) satisfying conditions (1.9) and (1.10) with constants s and η and that for every \(i=1, \ldots, m\), there exist kernels \(K_{t,v}^{(i)}\) such that
for all Schwartz functions \(f_{1}, \ldots, f_{m}\), g with \(\bigcap_{k=1}^{m} \operatorname{supp} f_{k}\cap \operatorname{supp} g= \emptyset\).
There exists a function \(\phi\in C(\mathbb{R})\) with \(\operatorname{supp} \phi\in [-1,1]\) and a constant \(\epsilon>0\) so that, for every \(i=1, \ldots, m\), we have
whenever \(t^{1/s}\leq|x-y_{i}|/2\).
Assumption (H2)
Assume that there exist operators \(\{A_{t}\} _{t>0}\) with kernels \(a_{t}(x,y)\) that satisfy conditions (1.9) and (1.10) with constants s and η, and there exist kernels \(K_{t,v}^{(0)}(x,\vec{y})\) such that
makes sense for all \((x,\vec{y})\in(\mathbb{R}^{n})^{m+1}\) and \(t>0\). Assume also that there exists a function \(\phi\in C(\mathbb{R})\) and \(\operatorname{supp} \phi\subset[-1,1]\) and a constant \(\epsilon>0\) such that
whenever \(2t^{1/s}\leq\min_{1\leq j\leq m}|x-y_{j}|\) and
for some \(A>0\), whenever \(2t^{1/s}\leq\max_{1\leq j\leq m}|x-y_{j}|\).
Assumption (H3)
Assume that there exist operators \(\{A_{t}\} _{t>0}\) with kernels \(a_{t}(x,y)\) that satisfy condition (1.9) and (1.10) with constant s and η. Also assume that there exist kernels \(K_{t,v}^{(0)}\) satisfying (1.13) and positive constants A and ϵ such that
whenever \(2t^{1/s}\leq\min_{1\leq j\leq m}|x-y_{j}|\) and \(2|x-x'|\leq t^{1/s}\).
We say that the kernels \(K_{v}\) generalized the square function kernels if they satisfy (1.1), (1.11), and (1.12) with parameters m, A, s, η, ϵ, and we denote their collection by \(m-\operatorname{GSFK}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\). We say that T is of class \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) if T has an associated kernel \(K_{v}\) in \(m-\operatorname{GSFK}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\).
Theorem C
(see [2])
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). For \(1< p_{1}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\), \(p\geq1\) with \(\frac {1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\omega\in A_{p}\), the following inequality holds:
Theorem D
(see [2])
Let \(0<\delta<1/m\) and T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s, \eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). Then there exists a constant C such that
holds for any bounded and compact supported function \(f_{i}\), \(i=1, 2, \ldots, m\).
Moreover, the corresponding multilinear maximal square function \(T^{*}\) is defined by
Theorem E
(see [2])
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). For \(1< p_{1}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\), \(p\geq1\) with \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\omega\in A_{p}\), the following inequality holds:
Theorem F
(see [2])
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). For any \(\eta>0\), there is a constant \(C<\infty\) depending on η such that the following inequality holds:
for all f⃗ in any product of \(L^{q_{j}}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\) spaces, with \(1\leq q_{j}<\infty\).
2 Main results
In this section, we first list some results about vector-valued multilinear operator \(T_{q}\) and the corresponding vector-valued maximal multilinear operator \(T_{q}^{*}\) which are defined, respectively, by
where \(\vec{f}=(f_{1},\ldots,f_{m})\) with \(f_{i}=\{f_{ik}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}\).
Theorem 3
Assume that T is a multilinear square operator defined in (1.4) with the kernel satisfying the integral condition of C-Z type I. Let \(1< p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\), \(1< q_{1}, q_{2}, \ldots, q_{m}<\infty\), and \(1/m< p,q<\infty\) with \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\). If \((\omega_{1}^{p_{1}},\ldots,\omega_{m}^{p_{m}})\in(A_{p_{1}}, \ldots, A_{p_{m}})\), the following inequality holds:
Theorem 4
Assume that T is a multilinear square operator defined in (1.4) with the kernel satisfying the integral condition of C-Z type I. Let \(1\leq p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\), \(1< q_{1}, q_{2}, \ldots, q_{m}<\infty\), and \(0< p,q<\infty\) with \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\).
-
(i)
If \(1\leq p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\) and \(\omega\in A_{p_{1}}\cap\cdots\cap A_{p_{m}}\), there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p}(\omega)}\leq C\prod _{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f_{j}\Vert _{\ell ^{q_{j}}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(\omega)}. $$(2.4) -
(ii)
If at least one \(p_{j}=1\) and \(\omega\in A_{1}\), there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p,\infty}(\omega)}\leq C\prod _{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f_{j}\Vert _{\ell^{q_{j}}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(\omega)}. $$(2.5)
Next, we show the results for the multilinear square operator T with non-smooth kernels and its corresponding maximal operator \(T^{*}\). Meanwhile, we also establish multiple weighted inequalities for their corresponding iterated commutator generated by the vector-valued multilinear operator and BMO function. We will state our results as follows.
Theorem 5
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). Let \(1< p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\), \(1< q_{1}, q_{2}, \ldots, q_{m}<\infty\) and \(1/m< p,q<\infty\) with \(\frac {1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac {1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\). If \((\omega_{1}^{p_{1}},\ldots,\omega _{m}^{p_{m}})\in(A_{p_{1}}, \ldots, A_{p_{m}})\), there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
A similar estimate also holds true for the corresponding maximal operator \(T^{*}\).
Theorem 6
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A,s,\eta,\epsilon)\) with a kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). Let \(1\leq p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty \), \(1< q_{1}, q_{2}, \ldots, q_{m}<\infty\) and \(0< p,q<\infty\) with \(\frac {1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac {1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\).
-
(i)
If \(1\leq p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\) and \(\omega\in A_{p_{1}}\cap\cdots\cap A_{p_{m}}\), the following inequality holds:
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p}(\omega)}\leq C\prod _{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f_{j}\Vert _{\ell ^{q_{j}}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(\omega)}. $$(2.7) -
(ii)
If at least one \(p_{j}=1\) and \(\omega\in A_{1}\), the following inequality holds:
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p,\infty}(\omega)}\leq C\prod _{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f_{j}\Vert _{\ell^{q_{j}}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(\omega)}. $$(2.8)
Similar estimates also hold true for the corresponding maximal operators \(T^{*}\).
The commutator associated with T is given by
where \(1\leq\ell\leq m\).
For simplicity of notation, for the sequence \(\{\vec{f}_{k}\} _{k=1}^{\infty}=\{f_{1k},\ldots,f_{mk}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}\) of vector functions, the commutator associated with a vector-valued \(T_{q}\) can be defined by
Theorem 7
Assume that T is a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A, s, \eta,\epsilon)\) with kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). Let \(1/m< p<\infty\), \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\) with \(1< p_{1},\ldots ,p_{m}<\infty\), \(1/m< q<\infty\), and \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{q_{1}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{q_{m}}\) with \(1< q_{1},\ldots,q_{m}<\infty\). Suppose that \(\vec {\omega}\in A_{\vec{p}}\) and \(\vec{b}\in(\mathit{BMO})^{\ell}\).
-
(i)
There exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{\Pi\vec{b},q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p}(v_{\omega})}\leq\prod _{j=1}^{\ell}\| b_{j} \|_{\mathit{BMO}}\prod_{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f\Vert _{q_{j}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(M\omega_{j})}. $$(2.10) -
(ii)
If \(\omega_{j}\in A_{p_{j}}\), there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
$$ \bigl\Vert T_{\Pi\vec{b},q}(\vec{f})\bigr\Vert _{L^{p}(v_{\omega})}\leq\prod _{j=1}^{\ell}\| b_{j} \|_{\mathit{BMO}}\prod_{j=1}^{m}\bigl\Vert \Vert f\Vert _{q_{j}}\bigr\Vert _{L^{p_{j}}(\omega_{j})}. $$(2.11)
3 The proof of Theorem 3
Since \(\omega_{j}\in A_{p_{j}}\), by the previous statement, \(\prod_{j=1}^{m} \omega_{j}^{p_{j}}\in A_{\vec{p}}\). Writing \(v_{\vec{\omega}}=\prod_{j=1}^{m}(\omega_{j}^{p_{j}})^{p/p_{j}}=\prod_{j=1}^{m}\omega_{j}^{p}\), Theorem A implies that
We will apply the following lemma to get the desirable result.
Lemma 8
(see [12])
Let \(\mathcal{T}\) be an m-linear operator, and let \(1< s_{1},\ldots ,s_{m}<\infty\) and \(1/m< s<\infty\) be fixed indices such that \(\frac {1}{s}=\frac{1}{s_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{s_{m}}\). For \((\omega_{1}^{s_{1}},\ldots ,\omega_{m}^{s_{m}})\in(A_{s_{1}}, \ldots, A_{s_{m}})\), the following estimate holds:
Then, for all indices, \(1< p_{1},\ldots,p_{m}<\infty\) and \(1/m< p<\infty\) satisfy \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{p_{m}}\), \(1< q_{1},\ldots ,q_{m}<\infty\), and \(1/m< q<\infty\) such that \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac {1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\), and all \((\omega_{1}^{p_{1}},\ldots,\omega _{m}^{p_{m}})\in(A_{p_{1}}, \ldots, A_{p_{m}})\). Then the following inequality holds:
4 The proof of Theorem 5
We first state the following Fefferman-Stein inequality.
Lemma 9
(see [13])
Let \(0< p,\delta<\infty\) and ω be any Mockenhaupt \(A_{\infty}\) weight. Then there exists a constant C independent of f such that the inequality
holds for any function f for which the left-hand side is finite.
Lemma 10
(see [12])
For \((\omega_{1},\ldots,\omega_{m})\in(A_{p_{1}},\ldots,A_{p_{m}})\) with \(1\leq p_{1}, \ldots, p_{m}<\infty\) and for \(0<\theta_{1}, \ldots, \theta _{m}<1\) such that \(\theta_{1}+\cdots+\theta_{m}=1\), we have \(\omega_{1}^{\theta _{1}}\cdots\omega_{1}^{\theta_{1}}\in A_{\max\{p_{1},\ldots,p_{m}\}}\).
Note that \((\omega_{1}^{p_{1}},\ldots,\omega_{m}^{p_{m}})\in(A_{p_{1}},\ldots ,A_{p_{m}})\), and Lemma 10 indicates that \(\prod_{j=1}^{m}\omega _{j}^{p}= \prod_{j=1}^{m}(\omega_{j}^{p_{j}})^{p/p_{j}}\in A_{\max\{p_{1},\ldots,p_{m}\} }\subset A_{\infty}\).
Exploiting Lemma 3.3 in [2] and the standard argument, we obtain \(\|M_{\delta}T(\vec{f})\|_{L^{p}(\prod_{j=1}^{m}\omega_{j}^{p})}<\infty \). Together with Theorem D, we have
By Lemma 8, we finish the proof of Theorem 5.
The estimate for \(T^{*}\) will follow from Lemma 8, Theorem F, and the following argument:
5 The proofs of Theorem 4 and Theorem 6
In order to prove these theorems, first we introduce the following lemmas.
Let \(\mathcal{F}\) denote a family of ordered pairs of non-negative, measurable functions \((f, g)\), if we say that for some p, \(0< p<\infty \), and \(\omega\in A_{\infty}\),
and we denote it by \((f, g)\in\mathcal{F}\).
Lemma 11
(see [14])
Given a family \(\mathcal{F}\), suppose that for some \(p_{0}\), \(0< p_{0}<\infty \), and for every weight \(\omega\in A_{\infty}\), \((f, g)\in\mathcal{F}\). Then we have, for all \(0< p,q<\infty\) and \(\omega\in A_{\infty}\),
For all \(0< p,q<\infty\), \(0< s\leq\infty\), and \(\omega\in A_{\infty}\),
Lemma 12
(see [15])
-
(i)
Let \(1< q<\infty\) and \(1\leq p<\infty\), there is a constant \(C_{r,p}\) such that
$$ \biggl\Vert \biggl(\sum_{k}\bigl\vert Mf_{k}(x)\bigr\vert ^{q}\biggr)^{1/q}\biggr\Vert _{L^{p,\infty }(\omega)}\leq C_{q,p}\biggl\Vert \biggl(\sum _{k}\bigl\vert f_{k}(x)\bigr\vert ^{q}\biggr)^{1/q} \biggr\Vert _{L^{p}(\omega)} $$(5.4)if and only if \(\omega\in A_{p}\).
-
(ii)
Let \(1< q<\infty\) and \(1< p<\infty\), there is a constant \(C_{q,p}\) such that
$$ \biggl\Vert \biggl(\sum_{k}\bigl\vert Mf_{k}(x)\bigr\vert ^{q}\biggr)^{1/q}\biggr\Vert _{L^{p}(\omega)}\leq C_{q,p}\biggl\Vert \biggl(\sum _{k}\bigl\vert f_{k}(x)\bigr\vert ^{q}\biggr)^{1/q}\biggr\Vert _{L^{p}(\omega)} $$(5.5)if and only if \(\omega\in A_{p}\).
By Theorem B, Theorem D, and Theorem F, together with the argument from Section 3 and (4.2), we have
Here \(\mathcal{T}\) can be replaced by T and \(T^{*}\) which are from Theorem 4 and Theorem 6.
We apply Lemma 11 to \((T(\vec{f}), \prod_{j=1}^{m}Mf_{j})\in \mathcal{F}\), and by Lemma 12 we get the desirable results.
6 The proof of Theorem 7
In order to prove Theorem 7, first we will list some notations and lemmas:
where \(\rho=\{j_{1},\ldots,j_{\ell}\}\subset\{1,\ldots,m\}\), \(1\leq\ell < m\) and \(\rho'=\{1,\ldots,m\}\backslash\rho\).
Lemma 13
(see [10])
Let \(1< p_{1},\ldots,p_{m}<\infty\), \(\frac{1}{p}=\frac{1}{p_{1}}+\cdots+\frac {1}{p_{m}}\), \(\vec{P}=(p_{1},\ldots,p_{m})\), \(\vec{\omega}\in A_{\vec{P}}\), and \(\rho=\{j_{1},\ldots,j_{\ell}\}\subset\{1,\ldots,m\}\), \(1\leq\ell < m\). Then \(\mathcal{M}\), \(\mathcal{M}_{L(\log L)}\), \(\mathcal{M}_{\rho }\) are bounded from \(L^{p_{1}}(\omega_{1})\times\cdots\times L^{p_{m}}(\omega_{m})\) to \(L^{p}(v_{\omega})\).
Lemma 14
Let T be a multilinear operator in \(m-\operatorname{GSFO}(A, s, \eta,\epsilon)\) with kernel satisfying Assumptions (H2) and (H3). Assume that \(1\leq\ell < m\), \(\rho=\{j_{1},\ldots,j_{\ell}\}\), and \(1/m< q<\infty\), \(1\leq q_{1},\ldots,q_{m}<\infty\) with \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac {1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\). Then there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
Proof
For a point x and a cube \(Q\ni x\), to obtain (6.4), it suffices to prove for \(0<\delta<1/m\),
for some constant c to be determined later.
Write \(\vec{f}_{k}=\vec{f}_{k}^{0}+\vec{f}_{k}^{\infty}\), where \(\{\vec {f}_{k}^{0}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}=\{\vec{f}_{k}^{0}\chi_{Q^{*}}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}=\{ f_{1k}\chi_{Q^{*}},\ldots,f_{mk}\chi_{Q^{*}}\}\) and \(Q^{*}=(8\sqrt{n}+4)Q\). Let \(c=\sum_{\alpha_{1},\ldots,\alpha_{m}}T(\vec{f}^{\alpha})(x)\) and in the sum each \(\alpha_{j}=0\) or ∞ and in each term there is at least one \(\alpha_{j}=\infty\). Then
where in each term of the last sum there is at least one \(\alpha _{j}=\infty\).
Kolmogorov’s inequality and Theorem 6 implies that
We proceed to the estimate for \(\mathit{II}_{\alpha_{1},\ldots,\alpha_{m}}\). Here we choose \(t=[2\sqrt{n}\ell(Q)]^{s}\). If \(\alpha_{1}=\cdots\alpha_{m}=\infty\), we have
applying Minkowski’s inequality, we get
Because of \(z\in Q\) and \(y_{j}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash(8\sqrt{n}+4)Q\), we obtain \(|y_{j}-z|>(4\sqrt{n}+1)\ell(Q)>2t^{1/s}\) for all \(j=1,\ldots ,m\). Assumption (H2) gives
Since \(x, z\in Q\), \(|z-x|\leq\sqrt{n}\ell(Q)\leq1/2t^{1/s}\). Noting that \(|y_{j}-z|>(4\sqrt{n}+1)\ell(Q)>2t^{1/s}\) for all \(j=1,\ldots,m\), applying Assumption (H3) and a similar argument to \(\mathit{II}^{1}\), we have \(\mathit{II}_{\infty,\ldots,\infty}^{2}\leq C\mathcal{M}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell ^{q}})(x)\). Similarly, we also get \(\mathit{II}_{\infty,\ldots,\infty}^{3}\leq C\mathcal{M}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell^{q}})(x)\).
Now let us consider the typical case of \(\mathit{II}_{\alpha_{1},\ldots,\alpha _{m}}\), that is, \(\alpha_{1}=\cdots=\alpha_{h}=\infty\) and \(\alpha_{h+1}=\cdots =\alpha_{m}=0\), \(1\leq h< m\),
For \(\mathit{II}_{\infty,\ldots,0}^{1}\), by Assumption (H2), we have
By a similar argument, we deduce that \(\mathit{II}_{\infty,\ldots,0}^{3}\leq C\mathcal{M}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell^{q}})(x)+\mathcal{M}_{\rho}(\|\vec{f}\| _{\ell^{q}})(x)\) and \(\mathit{II}_{\infty,\ldots,0}^{2}\leq C\mathcal{M}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell^{q}})(x)\). □
Given any positive integer m, \(\forall1\leq j\leq m\), let \(C_{j}^{m}\) denote the family of all finite subset \(\sigma=\{\sigma(1),\ldots,\sigma (j)\}\) of j different elements. For any \(\sigma\in C_{j}^{m}\) we associate the complementary sequence \(\sigma'\) given by \(\sigma'=\{ 1,2,\ldots,m\}\backslash\sigma\).
Lemma 15
Let \(0<\delta<\epsilon<1/m\), \(1/m< q<\infty\), and \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac {1}{q_{1}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{q_{m}}\) with \(1< q_{1},\ldots,q_{m}<\infty\). Suppose that \(\vec{b}\in(\mathit{BMO})^{\ell}\). Then there exists a constant \(C>0\) depending only on δ and ϵ such that
for any smooth vector function \(\{f_{k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}\) for any \(x\in \mathbb{R}^{n}\).
Proof
For simplicity of notation, we replace \(\prod_{j=1}^{m}f_{j}(y_{j})\) by \(F(\vec{y})\) and let \(\lambda_{j}=\frac{1}{2|Q|}\int_{2Q}b_{j}(z)\,dz\), for \(j=1,\ldots,\ell\). Let \(x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\) and Q be a cube centered at x. We have
Noting that \(b_{j}(y_{j})-\lambda_{j}=(b_{j}(y_{j})-b_{j}(x))+(b_{j}(x)-\lambda_{j})\), we get
Here \(C_{i,\ell}\) depends only on i and ℓ.
Let \(c_{0}=\|c\|_{\ell^{q}}=(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}|c_{k}|^{q})^{1/q}\). Since \(0<\delta<1/m<1\), we have
Now exploiting the standard Hölder inequality for finitely many functions with \(1< p<\epsilon/\delta\), it follows that
Next let us address part III. Set \(\vec{f}_{j}=\vec{f}_{j}^{0}+\vec {f}_{j}^{\infty}\), where \(\vec{f}_{j}^{0}=\vec{f}_{j}\chi_{Q^{*}}\). Let \(\vec {f}^{\alpha}=f_{1}^{\alpha_{1}}\cdots f_{m}^{\alpha_{m}}\) and \(Q^{*}=(8\sqrt{n}+4)Q\). Taking \(c_{0}=\sum_{\alpha_{1},\ldots,\alpha_{m}}\| T((b_{1}(\cdot_{1})-\lambda_{1})\cdots(b_{\ell}(\cdot_{\ell})-\lambda_{\ell }))f_{1}^{\alpha_{1}}\cdots f_{m}^{\alpha_{m}}(x)\|_{\ell^{q}}\), we have
where in the last sum each \(\alpha_{j}=0\mbox{ or }\infty\) and in each term there is at least one \(\alpha_{j}=\infty\).
If \(\alpha_{1}=\cdots=\alpha_{m}=0\), Kolmogorov’s inequality and Theorem 6 imply
If \(\alpha_{1}=\cdots=\alpha_{m}=\infty\), applying Hölder’s inequality and Minkowski’s inequality, then we get
First we consider \(\mathit{III}_{1}\). Taking \(t=[2\sqrt{n}\ell(Q)]^{s}\), by Assumption (H2) we have
Similarly, we have \(\mathit{III}_{2}\leq C\mathcal{M}_{L(\log L)}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell ^{q}})(x)\) and \(\mathit{III}_{3}\leq C\mathcal{M}_{L(\log L)}(\|\vec{f}\|_{\ell ^{q}})(x)\). Now it remains to consider the typical case of III,
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Lemma 16
Let \(0< p<\infty\), \(1/m< q<\infty\), and \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{q_{1}}+\cdots +\frac{1}{q_{m}}\) with \(1< q_{1},\ldots,q_{m}<\infty\) and let \(\omega\in A_{\infty}\). Suppose that \(\vec{b}\in(\mathit{BMO})^{\ell}\). Then there exists a constant \(C>0\) such that
The proof is similar to [16], so we omit it here.
Based on the above lemmas, the proof of Theorem 1.3 in [16] provides the main ideas for the proof of Theorem 7.
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The first author was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11401175). The second author was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3102015ZY068). The authors thank the referees for carefully reading the manuscript and providing many valuable suggestions, which have improved the article.
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Li, W., Song, M. Weighted estimates for vector-valued multilinear square function. J Inequal Appl 2015, 395 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-015-0913-z
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