Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a fractional maximal operators \(N_{\alpha }\) on \((0,\infty )\) associated to the fractional Hardy operator \(P_{\alpha }\) and its dual \(Q_{\alpha }, 0\leq \alpha <1\), and obtain some characterizations for the one-weight and two-weight inequalities for \(N_{\alpha }\). We also give some \(A_{p}\) type sufficient conditions for the two-weight inequalities for the fractional Hardy operators, the dual operators and the commutators of the fractional Hardy operators with CMO functions.
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1 Introduction
Let \(P_{\alpha }\) and \(Q_{\alpha }\) be the fractional Hardy operator and its adjoint on \((0,\infty )\),
where \(0\leq \alpha <1\).
When \(\alpha =0\), we denote \(P_{0}\) as P and \(Q_{0}\) as Q. P and Q are the Hardy operator and its adjoint. Hardy [6, 7] established the Hardy integral inequalities
and
where \(p'=p/(p-1)\).
The two inequalities above go by the name of Hardy’s integral inequalities. For earlier development of this kind of inequality and many applications in analysis, see [2, 8, 13].
The fractional Calderón operator \(S_{\alpha }\) is defined as \(S_{\alpha }=P_{\alpha }+Q_{\alpha }\). When \(\alpha =0\), \(S_{0}\) is denoted S, and S is the Calderón operator, which plays a significant role in the theory of real interpolation; see [1]. Next, we introduce the fractional maximal operators \(N_{\alpha }\) related to the fractional Calderón operator. Given a measurable function f on \((0,\infty )\), the fractional maximal operator \(N_{\alpha }\) is defined as
Notice that \(N_{\alpha }f\) is a decreasing function, and that \(|P_{\alpha }f|\leq N_{\alpha }f \leq S_{\alpha }(|f|)\), for any f. Indeed, for any f and \(t>x\) we have
Notice that \(N_{\alpha }f\leq S_{\alpha }f\) for nonnegative f.
For \(\alpha =0\), \(N_{0}\) is denoted as N. Duoandikoetxea, Martin-Reyes and Ombrosi in [3] introduced the maximal operator N related to the Calderón operator and studied the weighted inequalities for N. Li, Zhang and Xue [9] obtained some two-weight inequalities for N.
For \(1< p\leq q<\infty \), we say a weight w satisfies the \(A_{p,q,0}\) condition, denoted as \(w\in A_{p,q,0}\), if
For \(p=1< q<\infty \), we write \(A_{1,q,0}\) for the class of nonnegative functions w such that
For \(1< p\leq q<\infty \), we say a pair of weights \((u,v)\) satisfies the two-weight \(A_{p,q}\) condition, denoted \((u,v)\in A_{p,q}\), if
For \(p=1\) we write \((u,v)\in A_{1,q}\), if
Let \(1\leq p<\infty \), we say b is a one-side dyadic \(\mathrm{CMO}^{p}\) function, if
where \(b_{(0,2^{j}]}=\frac{1}{2^{j}}\int _{0}^{2^{j}}f(x)\,dx\), we then say that \(b\in \mathrm{CMO}^{p}\).
It is easy to see \(\mathrm{BMO}(0,\infty )\) ⫋ \(\mathrm{CMO}^{p}\), where \(1\leq p<\infty \). \(\mathrm{CMO}^{q}\) ⫋ \(\mathrm{CMO}^{p}\) for \(1\leq p< q< \infty \).
Let b be a locally integrable function on \((0,\infty )\), we define the commutators of the fractional Calderón operator \(S_{\alpha }\) with b as \(S_{\alpha }^{b}=P_{\alpha }^{b}+Q_{\alpha }^{b}\), where
For \(\alpha =0\), \(P_{\alpha }^{b}\) and \(Q_{\alpha }^{b}\) be denoted as \(P^{b}\) and \(Q^{b}\), respectively. Long and Wang [10] established Hardy’s integral inequalities for commutators generated by P and Q with one-sided dyadic CMO functions, and for \(0<\alpha <1\) proved that the two commutators of \(P_{\alpha }^{b}\) and \(Q_{\alpha }^{b}\) are bounded from \(L^{p}(\mathbb{R_{+}})\) to \(L^{q}(\mathbb{R_{+}})\) with the function b in one-side dyadic \(\mathrm{CMO}^{\max {(q,p')}}\), where \(1< p< q<\infty \), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{p}-\alpha \). Fu [4], Zheng and Fu [14] showed some boundedness properties for \(P_{\alpha }^{b}\) and \(Q_{\alpha }^{b}\), respectively. Li, Zhang and Xue [9] obtained some \(A_{p}\) type sufficient conditions such that the two-weight inequalities are true for P, Q, \(P^{b}\) and \(Q^{b}\). The commutator estimates for Hardy operator are actual in view of applications in PDE; see Mamedov and Brahimov [11].
In this paper, we discuss the one-weight and two-weight inequalities of operators \(N_{\alpha }\), \(P_{\alpha }\), \(Q_{\alpha }\), \(P_{\alpha } ^{b}\), \(Q_{\alpha }^{b}\), and get the following results.
Theorem 1.1
For \(1\leq p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), \(0\le \alpha <1\), \(\frac{1}{q}= \frac{1}{p}-\alpha \), \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(w^{p})\) to \(L^{q,\infty }(w^{q})\) if and only if \(w\in A_{p,q,0}\). More precisely,
For \(1< p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), \(0\leq \alpha <1\), \(\frac{1}{q}= \frac{1}{p}-\alpha \), \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(w^{p})\) to \(L^{q}(w^{q})\) if and only if \(w\in A_{p,q,0}\). Moreover,
Theorem 1.2
For \(1\leq p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), \(0\leq \alpha <1\), \(\frac{1}{q}= \frac{1}{p}-\alpha \), \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(v^{p})\) to \(L^{q,\infty }(u^{q})\) if and only if \((u,v)\in A_{p,q}\). More precisely,
Theorem 1.3
For \(1< p<\infty \), \(0\leq \alpha <1\), \(0< q<\infty \), \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(v^{p})\) to \(L^{q}(u^{q})\), if and only if, for any \(t>0\), \((u,v)\) satisfies
But for \(1< p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), \(0\leq \alpha <1\), \(\frac{1}{q}= \frac{1}{p}-\alpha \), \(N_{\alpha }\) is not bounded from \(L^{p}(v^{p})\) to \(L^{q}(u^{q})\) if \((u,v)\in A_{p,q}\), the proof is similar to the case for the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function on \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\); see [5]. Notice that \(|P_{\alpha }f|\leq N_{\alpha }f \leq S_{ \alpha }(|f|)\), by Theorem 1.1, we see that \((u,v)\in A_{p,q}\), is necessary but not sufficient for \(S_{\alpha }\) to be bounded from \(L^{p}(v^{p})\) to \(L^{q}(u^{q})\).
Theorem 1.4
Let \(1< p< q<\infty \), \(0\leq \alpha <1\).
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(a)
Let \((u,v)\) be a pair of weights for which there exists \(r>1\) such that, for every \(t>0\),
$$ t^{(1/q+\alpha -1/p)} \biggl(\frac{1}{t} \int _{0}^{t}u(y)^{q}\,dy \biggr)^{1/q} \biggl(\frac{1}{t} \int _{0}^{t}v(y)^{-rp'}\,dy \biggr)^{1/rp'}\leq C< \infty. $$(4)Then
$$ \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert P_{\alpha }f(x) \bigr\vert ^{q}u(x)^{q}\,dx \biggr)^{1/q} \leq C \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert f(x) \bigr\vert ^{p}v(x)^{p}\,dx \biggr)^{1/p}. $$(5) -
(b)
Let \((u,v)\) be a pair of weights for which there exists \(r>1\) such that, for every \(t>0\),
$$ t^{(1/q+\alpha -1/p)} \biggl(\frac{1}{t} \int _{0}^{t}u(y)^{rq}\,dy \biggr)^{1/rq} \biggl(\frac{1}{t} \int _{0}^{t}v(y)^{-p'}\,dy \biggr)^{1/p'}\leq C< \infty. $$(6)Then
$$ \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert Q_{\alpha }f(x) \bigr\vert ^{q}u(x)^{q}\,dx \biggr)^{1/q} \leq C \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert f(x) \bigr\vert ^{p}v(x)^{p}\,dx \biggr)^{1/p}. $$(7)
Theorem 1.5
Let \(1< p< q<\infty \), \(0\leq \alpha <1\), \(b\in CMO^{r'\max {\{q,p'\}}}\), and \((u,v)\) be a pair of weights for which there exists \(r>1\) such that, for every \(t>0\),
Then
and
2 The proofs of Theorem 1.1, Theorem 1.2 and Theorem 1.3
In order to prove the theorems, we need the fractional maximal operator \(N_{\alpha }^{g}\) associated to a fixed positive measurable function g. For \(0\le \alpha <1\), we defined \(N_{\alpha }^{g}\) as
Mamedov and Zeren [12] obtained the two-weight inequalities for this maximal operator in the Lebesgue spaces with variable exponent. When \(\alpha =0\), we denote \(N_{\alpha }^{g}\) as \(N^{g}\). Duoandikoetxea, Martin-Reyes and Ombrosi in [3] obtained the following lemma for \(N^{g}\).
Lemma 2.1
Let \(0\le \alpha <1\) and g be a nonnegative measurable function such that \(0< g(0,t)=\int _{0}^{t}g(x)\,dx<\infty \), for all \(t>0\).
-
(i)
\(N_{\alpha }^{g}\) is of weak type \((1,\frac{1}{1-\alpha })\) with respect to the measure \(g(t)\,dt\). Actually,
$$ \biggl( \int _{\{x:N_{\alpha }^{g}f(x)>\lambda \}} g(y)\,dy \biggr)^{1- \alpha }\leq \frac{1}{\lambda } \int _{\{x:N_{\alpha }^{g}f(x)>\lambda \}} \bigl\vert f(y) \bigr\vert g(y) \,dy, $$(11)for all \(\lambda >0\) and all measurable functions f.
-
(ii)
\(N_{\alpha }^{g}\) is of strong type \((p,q)\), \(1< p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), \(\frac{1}{q}=\frac{1}{p}-\alpha \), with respect to the measure \(g(t)\,dt\). More precisely,
$$\begin{aligned} \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert N_{\alpha }^{g}f(y) \bigr\vert ^{q}g(y)\,dy \biggr)^{1/q} \leq C(p,\alpha ) \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \bigl\vert f(y) \bigr\vert ^{p}g(y)\,dy \biggr)^{1/p}, \end{aligned}$$in which the constant \(C(p,\alpha )\) independent of f and g.
Proof
By standard interpolation arguments, it suffices to prove (i) since by the Hölder inequality, we have
Thus we obtain \(\|N_{\alpha }^{g}f\|_{\infty }\leq \|f\|_{L^{1/\alpha }(g)}\).
Observe that \(N_{\alpha }^{g}f\) is decreasing and continuous. Therefore, if \(\{t:N_{\alpha }^{g}(f)(t)>\lambda \}\) is not empty, then it is either a bounded interval \((0,d)\) or all of \((0,\infty )\). In the first case
whereas in the second case we have
Thus we obtain (11). Notice that if \(g(0,\infty )=\int _{0}^{\infty }g(x)\,dx=+\infty \) and f is integrable with respect to g, only the first case is possible and the equality holds. □
Proof of Theorem 1.1
Let us prove first the necessity of \(A_{p,q,0}\) for the weak-type inequality.
(i) For \(1< p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), let \(E_{k}=\{x:w(x)>1/k \}\) and \(w_{k}=w\chi _{E_{k}}\). Take \(f=w_{k}^{-p'}\chi _{(0,t)}\). Then
for \(0< x< t\). Thus, \((0,t)\subset \{x:N_{\alpha }f(x)>\lambda \}\) taking as λ the right-hand side of (13). By \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(w^{p})\) to \(L^{q,\infty }(w^{q})\), we have
Thus we obtain
Letting k tend to infinity, \(w\in A_{p,q,0}\) follows.
(ii) For \(p=1\), let \((0,s)\) be any interval, for any interval \((t_{1},t_{2})\subset (0,s)\). Taking \(f=\chi _{(t_{1},t_{2})}\). Then
for \(0< x< s\). Thus, \((0,s)\subset \{x:N_{\alpha }f(x)>\lambda \}\) taking as λ the right-hand side of (14). By \(N_{\alpha }\) is bounded from \(L^{p}(w^{p})\) to \(L^{q,\infty }(w^{q})\), we have
Thus we have
By the Lebesgue differentiation theorem, for any \(y\in (0,s)\), we have
Thus, \(w\in A_{1,q,0}\) follows.
For the sufficient, arguing as in the proof of the Lemma 2.1, we have (12) with \(g\equiv 1\), that is,
Then
and (1) follows.
Now we prove (2). If \(w\in A_{p,q,0}, 0< x< t\), \(\sigma =w^{-p'}\) and \(\delta =w^{q}\), we have
Therefore,
Consequently, using Lemma 2.1,
This ends the proof of the theorem. □
Proof of Theorem 1.2
For \(1\leq p<\frac{1}{\alpha }\), the proof for the necessity of \(A_{p,q}\) for the weak-type inequality is standard and similar to the proof of Theorem 1.1, we omitted here. For the sufficient, we observe that \(N_{\alpha }f\) is decreasing and continuous. Therefore, if \(\{x:N_{\alpha }f(x)>\lambda \}\) is not empty, then it is a bounded interval \((0,d)\), thus
Then
This ends the proof. □
Proof of Theorem 1.3
Denote \(\sigma =v^{-p'}\). The necessity of (3) follows by a standard argument if we substitute \(f=\sigma \chi _{(0,t)}\) into \(\|N_{\alpha }f\|_{L^{q}(u ^{q})}\leq C\|f\|_{L^{p}(v^{p})}\).
To show that (3) is sufficient, fix a bounded nonnegative function f with compact support. Since \(N_{\alpha }f\) is decreasing and continuous, for each \(k\in \mathbb{Z}\), if \(\{x\in (0,\infty ):N _{\alpha }f(x)>2^{k}\}\) is not empty, then there exists \(d_{k}\) such that \(\{x\in (0,\infty ):N_{\alpha }f(x)>2^{k}\}=(0,d_{k})\). Thus \(0< d_{k+1}\leq d_{k}\), \(\varOmega _{k}=\{x\in (0,\infty ):2^{k}< N_{\alpha }f(x)\leq 2^{k+1}\}=[d_{k+1},d_{k})\) and
Fix a large integer \(K>0\), which will go to infinity later, and let \(\varLambda _{K}=\{k\in \mathbb{Z}:|k|\leq K\}\). We have
where ν is the measure on \(\mathbb{Z}\) given by
and, for every measurable function h, the operator \(T_{K}\) is defined by
If we prove that \(T_{K}\) is uniformly bounded from \(L^{p}((0,\infty ), \sigma )\) to \(L^{q}(\mathbb{Z},\nu )\) independently of K, we shall obtain
The uniformity in K of this estimate and the monotone convergence theorem will lead to the desired inequality.
Now we prove that \(T_{K}\) is a bounded operator from \(L^{p}((0,\infty ),\sigma )\) to \(L^{q}(\mathbb{Z},\nu )\). It is clear that \(T_{K}:L ^{\infty }((0,\infty ),\sigma )\to L^{\infty }(\mathbb{Z},\nu )\) with constant less than or equal to 1. The Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem says that it is enough to prove the uniform boundedness of the operators \(T_{K}\) from \(L^{1}((0,\infty ),\sigma )\) to \(L^{q/p,\infty }(\mathbb{Z},\nu )\). For this purpose, fix \(h\ge 0\), a bounded function with compact support, and put \(F_{\lambda }=\{k\in \mathbb{Z}:T_{K}h(k)> \lambda \}=\{|k|\leq K:T_{K}h(k)>\lambda \}\), and \(k_{0}=\min \{k:k \in F_{\lambda }\}\). Using (3), we have
where the constant C does not depend on K. This ends the proof. □
3 The proofs of Theorem 1.4 and Theorem 1.5
Proof of Theorem 1.4
We first prove (5). By the Hölder inequality and condition (4), we have
Next we will prove the following inequalities (7). By the Hölder inequality and condition (6), we have
□
Lemma 3.1
([10])
Let \(b\in \mathrm{CMO}^{1}\), \(j,k\in \mathbb{Z}\), then
Proof of Theorem 1.5
We first prove (9). We have
For I, by the Hölder inequality and condition (8), we have
For II, by Lemma 3.1, we have
For \(\mathrm{II_{1}}\), by the Hölder inequality and condition (8), we have
For \(\mathrm{II_{2}}\), we have
Now we prove (10). We have
For J, by the Hölder inequality and condition (8), we have
For JJ, by Lemma 3.1, we have
For \(\mathrm{JJ}_{1}\), we have
For \(\mathrm{JJ}_{2}\), we have
This ends the proof. □
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Wenming Li was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Hebei Province (grant No. Z2014031).
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Li, W., Liu, D. & Liu, J. Weighted inequalities for fractional Hardy operators and commutators. J Inequal Appl 2019, 158 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-019-2108-5
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