Bloom Type Inequality: The Off-diagonal Case
Junren Pan, Wenchang Sun

TL;DR
This paper proves a Bloom type inequality for off-diagonal fractional integral operators acting on product spaces, establishing bounds in weighted mixed-norm spaces and introducing a representation formula for fractional integrals.
Contribution
It introduces a new Bloom type inequality for off-diagonal fractional integrals on product spaces, with a novel representation formula for these operators.
Findings
Established a representation formula for fractional integrals.
Proved a Bloom type inequality for off-diagonal fractional integrals.
Derived bounds in weighted mixed-norm spaces.
Abstract
In this paper, we establish a representation formula for fractional integrals. As a consequence, for two fractional integral operators and , we prove a Bloom type inequality \begin{align*} \mbox{\hbox to 8em{}}& \hskip -8em \left\|\big[I_{\lambda_1}^1,\big[b,I_{\lambda_2}^2\big]\big] \right\|_{L^{p_2}(L^{p_1})(\mu_2^{p_2}\times\mu_1^{p_1})\rightarrow L^{q_2}(L^{q_1})(\sigma_2^{q_2}\times\sigma_1^{q_1})} % \\ %& \lesssim_{\substack{[\mu_1]_{A_{p_1,q_1}(\mathbb R^n)},[\mu_2]_{A_{p_2,q_2}(\mathbb R^m)} \\ [\sigma_1]_{A_{p_1,q_1}(\mathbb R^n)},[\sigma_2]_{A_{p_2,q_2}(\mathbb R^m)}}} \|b\|_{\BMO_{\pro}(\nu)}, \end{align*} where the indices satisfy , , and , the weights , and…
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Bloom Type Inequality: The Off-diagonal Case††thanks: This work was partially supported by the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (11525104, 11531013, 11761131002 and 11801282).
Junren Pan and Wenchang Sun
School of Mathematical Sciences and LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Emails: [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract
In this paper, we establish a representation formula for fractional integrals. As a consequence, for two fractional integral operators and , we prove a Bloom type inequality
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where the indices satisfy , , and , the weights , and , stands for acting on the first variable and stands for acting on the second variable, is a weighted product space and and are mixed-norm spaces.
Key words. Fractional integrals, representation formula, mixed-norm spaces, Bloom type inequality, product BMO.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 42B20
1 Introduction and The Main Results
Let and be two weights in . A two-weight problem asks for a characterization of the boundedness of an operator . In a Bloom type variant of this problem, and are Muckenhoupt weights and a function , which is taken from some appropriate weighted space for some Bloom type weight , is invoked. This leads us naturally to the commutator setting.
In the one-parameter case, Bloom [4] obtained such a two-weight estimate for , where is the Hilbert transform. Holmes, Lacey and Wick [17] extended Bloom’s result to general Calderón-Zygmund operators. The iterated case is by Holmes and Wick [19] (see also Hytönen [26]). An improved iterated case is by Lerner, Ombrosi and Rivera-Ríos [29].
In the bi-parameter case, there are two types of commutators: one is involved with little BMO spaces, and the other is associated with the more complicated product BMO spaces. For the first type, Holmes, Petermichl and Wick [18] initiated the study of with being any bi-parameter Calderón-Zygmund operator and being some weighted little BMO function. Then Li, Martikainen and Vuorinen [30] extended Holmes-Petermichl-Wick’s result to higher order commutators, and provided a simpler proof for the first order case. In [5] Cao and Gu studied the related question for fractional integrals. For the second type, Li, Martikainen and Vuorinen [31] first studied the question for (known as the Ferguson-Lacey type commutator [12]), where and are one-parameter Calderón-Zygmund operators in and , respectively. Recently, Airta [1] generalized this result to the multi-parameter case.
In this paper, we focus on the Bloom type inequality for the Ferguson-Lacey type commutator involved with fractional integrals. Specifically, we prove a Bloom type inequality for , where
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is the fractional integral operator, and for a measurable function defined on , stands for acting on the first variable of and stands for acting on the second variable of , i.e.,
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Our results extend similar results for singular integral operators. The main difference is that mixed-norm spaces [2, 3] are invoked when we study the off-diagonal case of Bloom type inequalities for fractional integral operators. Note that there are many results on mixed-norm spaces, e.g., see [6, 13, 16, 20, 35, 36, 37] for some recent advances on mixed-norm Lebesgue spaces, [8] for Besov spaces, [14, 27] for Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and [7, 21, 22] for Hardy spaces.
To get a Bloom type inequality for singular integral operators, a basic tool is the representation theorem (see Hytönen [25] for the one-parameter case, and Martikainen [32], Ou [34] for the bi-parameter and multi-parameter cases, respectively). To deal with fractional integral operators, we need to establish a representation formula. Before stating our main results, we introduce some notations.
Let be the standard dyadic system in , i.e.,
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Given some and a cube , denote
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We define the random dyadic system by
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Definition 1.1** (Fractional dyadic shifts).**
Given two integers , the fractional dyadic shift associated with is defined by
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where each has the form
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with the coefficients satisfying .
We are now ready to state our first main result, a representation formula of fractional integral operators.
Theorem 1.2**.**
Let be a constant and be a fractional integral operator defined by (1.1). Then we have
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where and the constant depends only on and the dimension .
Recall that for , the Muckenhoupt class consists of all locally integrable positive functions for which
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And for , consists of all weight functions for which
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where and the supremum is taken over all cubes with sides parallel to the axes.
Now we introduce the weighted product BMO space. Let be a dyadic system in , where . And let be a dyadic system in , where . Given , we say that a locally integrable function belongs to the weighted product BMO space if
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where and the supremum is taken over all subsets such that and for every , there exist some and satisfying . The non-dyadic product BMO norm can be defined by taking the supremum over all dyadic systems and , i.e.,
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Now we state the second main result, a Bloom type inequality for fractional integral operators.
Theorem 1.3**.**
Let and be two fractional integral operators acting on functions defined on and , respectively. Suppose that , , and . Let and . Set . Then we have the quantitative estimate
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Here the weight is of tensor product type. We do not know how to relax this restriction. This is mainly due to the natural appearance of the mixed-norm spaces, in which even the boundedness of the strong maximal function with non-tensor product type weights is still open.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we collect some preliminary results. And in Section 3, we give a proof of Theorem 1.2. In Section 4, we present some results on mixed-norm spaces and then give a proof of the Bloom type inequality for fractional integral operators.
2 Notations and Preliminary Results
We denote if for some constant that can depend on the dimension of the underlying spaces, on integration exponents, and on various other constants appearing in the assumptions.
We denote the product space . For any , we write with and .
Let and be measures on and , respectively. For with and a measurable function , we define the mixed-norm by
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2.1 Random dyadic systems
Let be defined by (1.2). For parameters and , we call a cube bad if there exists some such that and
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where stands for the side length. In the treatment of a fractional integral operator with exponent , the choice is useful.
We say that a cube is good if it is not bad. It is well-known that is independent of the choice of and if is sufficiently large, then
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Given two cubes , we denote by the smallest cube in that contains both and . If it does not exist, we denote .
2.2 Haar functions and martingale differences
In one dimension, for an interval , the Haar functions are defined by and , here and are the left and right halves of the interval , respectively. In higher dimensions, for a cube , we define the Haar functions as
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where .
For a locally integrable function , the martingale difference associated with a dyadic cube is defined by
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Set \big{\langle}f\big{\rangle}_{I}:=\frac{1}{|I|}\int_{I}f. We also write E_{I}f:=\big{\langle}f\big{\rangle}_{I}1_{I}. We have the usual martingale decomposition
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Since the ’s do not play any major role, in the sequel we just simply write
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A martingale block is denoted by
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where denotes the unique dyadic cube such that and .
By the definition of fractional dyadic shifts, it is is easy to see that
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Cruz-Uribe and Moen [10] proved that
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Thus we have
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2.3 Weights
For any and , a simple calculation gives that , and .
In [33], Muckenhoupt and Wheeden proved the weighted bound for fractional integral operators. Specifically, they showed that if and , then
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if and only if . Combining with the inequality (2.4), we have
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2.4 Maximal functions and martingale difference square functions
Let be a dyadic system in , where . For a measurable function defined on , we define the martingale difference square function by
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Wilson [38] proved the following weighted estimates for martingale difference square functions.
Proposition 2.1** ([38, Theorem 2.1]).**
For any , and a measurable function , we have the following norm equivalence,
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And Cruz-Uribe, Martell and Pérez [9] gave the following sharp estimate.
Proposition 2.2** ([9, Theorem 1.8]).**
Given , then for any measurable function and ,
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Further, the exponent is the best possible.
Next we introduce some notations on the product space . Given a measurable function defined on , we define the strong maximal function by
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where and and are cubes with sides parallel to the axes.
Let and be dyadic systems in and , respectively, where and . We define the dyadic maximal functions by
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It is obvious that , and , thanks to the Lebesgue differentiation theorem.
Let and . We define the partial fractional maximal functions by
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By (2.3), it is easy to see that
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Similarly,
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And we define the martingale difference square functions on the product space by
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where , and .
Similarly we set and .
Notice that and , where is defined by
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and is defined similarly.
The Martingale blocks are defined in the natural way,
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3 Proof of Theorem 1.2
In this section, we give a proof of Theorem 1.2. First, we introduce a result by Hytönen [24].
Lemma 3.1** ([24, Lemma 3.7]).**
Let be such that is good, and . Then there exists some which satisfies
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To prove the main result, we also need the following lemma.
Lemma 3.2**.**
Let and be cubes in . If and share the same center, then .
Proof.
For , let the Haar functions be defined by (2.1). Observe that there exists some such that . Without loss of generality, we assume that . We denote the center of the interval by . Moreover, we further divide cubes and into the following parts,
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Then
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where
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and
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So we have . Similarly we can show that . Therefore,
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This completes the proof. ∎
We are now ready to give a proof of Theorem 1.2.
Proof of Theorem 1.2.
Using (2.2) to expand and , we have
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Since the goodness of a cube is independent of its position, we have
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First, we estimate the first term I. We have
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Now we estimate the four terms separately.
The term . By Lemma 3.1, we know that exists and
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We write
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Denote the center of the cube by . We have
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So we obtain
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The term . Again by Lemma 3.1, with the condition and , we know that exists and . So can be written as
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Since is bounded from to , we have
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Observe that and . We have
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So
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The term . It is easy to see that the term can be written as
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With similar arguments as those for calculating the term , we have
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Hence
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The term . This term can be written as
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The cube has children in . implies that must be contained in one of the children . Since , we have . Hence is good and
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We denote the center of the cube by . Let be the cube with side length and the same center . Then we have . By Lemma 3.2,
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Now we see from the definition of Haar functions that is a constant on . More precisely, . It follows that
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So we obtain
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Hence
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Similarly we can calculate the term II and get the conclusion as desired. This completes the proof. ∎
4 Proof of Theorem 1.3
In this section, we give a proof of Theorem 1.3. First, we introduce some results on mixed-norm spaces. We begin with a result on the weighted estimates of the strong maximal function.
Proposition 4.1** ([28, Theorem 1]).**
Let and weights and . Then
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Moreover, we have the Fefferman-Stein inequality
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It is easy to see that the above result remains true whenever is replaced by , or .
Next we introduce the extrapolation theorem [11].
Proposition 4.2**.**
Assume that for a pair of nonnegative functions , for some and for all , we have
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where is an increasing function and the constant does not depend on . Then for all and all , we have
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where K(w)\leq C_{1}N\big{(}C_{2}[w]_{A_{p}}^{\max(1,\frac{p_{0}-1}{p-1})}\big{)} for .
With the above extrapolation theorem, we can prove the following estimates of martingale difference square functions.
Lemma 4.3**.**
Under the same hypotheses as in Proposition 4.1, we have
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Proof.
First we prove (4.1). For any , we have
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By Proposition 2.1, we have
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Hence
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Next we prove (4.2). Denote and by and , respectively. We have
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Notice that for any weight , we have
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By Proposition 2.2,
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This give us
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Note that is increasing on . By Proposition 4.2, for any , we have
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That is,
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Finally we prove (4.3). By the Kahane-Khintchine inequality [23],
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where is a Rademacher sequence defined on some probability space \big{(}\Omega,\mathbb{P}\big{)}.
Since , by Minkowski’s integral inequality,
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It follows from (4.2) that
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On the other hand, we see from Proposition 2.1 that
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Combining the above inequalities, we get
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This completes the proof. ∎
The -valued extension of linear operators on classical spaces is well known, e.g., see Grafakos [15, Chapter 4]. Here we give a similar result on mixed-norm spaces. Since we do not find a reference, we present a short proof.
Lemma 4.4**.**
Let be measures on and be measures on . Given and suppose that is a bounded linear operator from to . Then has an -valued extension, that is, for all complex-valued functions in we have
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Proof.
By the Khintchine inequality,
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where is a Rademacher sequence defined on a probability space \big{(}\Omega,\mathbb{P}\big{)}. This gives us
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By the Kahane-Khintchine inequality, we have
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Hence
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Since is bounded from to , we see from the above arguments that
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When , we see from Minkowski’s integral inequality that
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Using the Kahane-Khintchine inequality again, we get
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Hence for ,
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When , since \big{(}\Omega,\mathbb{P}\big{)} is a probability space, by Hölder’s inequality, we get
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Similar arguments as those for the case of show that when ,
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This completes the proof. ∎
Next we give the weighted estimates of the partial fractional integral operators and .
Lemma 4.5**.**
Let and be fractional integral operators in and , respectively, where and . Let be constants such that and . Suppose that and . Then for any measurable function defined on , we have
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Proof.
Observe that
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Taking the norm and the norm respectively, we get the first two inequalities.
On the other hand, by Minkowski’s integral inequality, we get
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This proves (4.6). And (4.7) can be proved similarly. ∎
Li, Martikainen and Vuorinen [30, 31] showed that a product can be expanded by paraproduct operators. Specifically, let and be dyadic systems in and , respectively, where and . The paraproduct operators are defined by
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and
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The ”illegal” biparameter paraproduct is
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We can decompose the multiplication in the biparameter sense,
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In the following we give the weighted estimates of on mixed-norm spaces.
Lemma 4.6**.**
Suppose that , where , , , , and . Then for , we have
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The classical weighted norm estimates of were proved by Holmes, Petermichl and Wick in [18]. The main tool they used was the following weighted - duality estimate.
Proposition 4.7** ([18, Proposition 4.1]).**
For every , we have
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By Proposition 4.7, we have the following estimate
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Using the same idea as in [18] we can prove Lemma 4.6. Here we only outline the general strategy and leave the details to interested readers.
Proof of Lemma 4.6.
By the dual property of mixed-norm spaces [3], it suffices to show that for any and with and ,
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First, we write , where depends on and . By Proposition 4.7, .
Next we show that , where and are operators that are combinations of maximal operators , , and square functions . By Proposition 4.1 and Lemma 4.3, we have
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and
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Finally, by Hölder’s inequality, the -norm of is controlled by the norm of and the norm of , i.e.,
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Now we get the conclusion as desired. ∎
We are now ready to prove the main result.
Proof of Theorem 1.3.
By the representation formula in Theorem 1.2, it suffices to prove the Bloom type inequality for \big{[}S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1},\big{[}b,S_{\lambda_{2},\beta}^{s,t,2}\big{]}\big{]}, where , , and
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and the coefficients satisfy
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By (4.8), we have
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where
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and
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We start looking at the sum over . First of all, combining (2.4) and Lemmas 4.5 and 4.6, we conclude that for all the individual terms are bounded.
Next we consider the case of . In this case the term S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1}\big{(}A_{k}\big{(}b,S_{\lambda_{2},\beta}^{s,t,2}f\big{)}\big{)} should be paired with another term. For , it is paired with -A_{k}\big{(}b,S_{\lambda_{2},\beta}^{s,t,2}S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1}f\big{)} and for , it is paired with -S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1}S_{\lambda_{2},\beta}^{s,t,2}\big{(}A_{k}\big{(}b,f\big{)}\big{)}. We consider only the case of . Other cases can be proved similarly.
Since , by (2.4) and Lemma 4.5, we have
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By the dual property of mixed-norm spaces, it suffices to estimate \big{|}\big{\langle}S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1}\big{(}A_{5}\big{(}b,f\big{)}\big{)} -A_{5}\big{(}b,S_{\lambda_{1},\omega}^{i,j,1}f\big{)},g\big{\rangle}\big{|} for .
Since
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and
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we reduce the problem to estimate
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and
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First, we estimate (4.12). For , we have
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where we use (4.10) in the last step. We see from (4.9) that
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where . By Hölder’s inequality,
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Since implies and implies , by Proposition 4.1 and Lemma 4.3,
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By (2.6), we have
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Since , we have . It follows from Lemma 4.5 that
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On the other hand, we see from that . By Proposition 4.1, we get
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So we conclude that
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Next, we estimate (4.13). Using the same method as that for estimating (4.12), we have
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Also by (2.6) we get
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By Lemma 4.5, is bounded from to . Note that is linear. It follows from Lemma 4.4 that
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Now we see from Proposition 4.1 and Lemma 4.3 that
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By Proposition 4.1,
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It follows that
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Taking the summation over and , we obtain
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Combining with (4.11), we get
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It remains to estimate
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where
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Noting that
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with similar arguments we get that
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This completes the proof. ∎
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