Morrey spaces for Schr\"odinger operators with certain nonnegative potentials, Littlewood-Paley and Lusin functions on the Heisenberg groups
Hua Wang

TL;DR
This paper introduces Morrey spaces adapted to Schr"odinger operators on Heisenberg groups and proves boundedness of Littlewood-Paley and Lusin functions on these spaces, extending classical harmonic analysis tools.
Contribution
It defines new Morrey spaces associated with Schr"odinger operators on Heisenberg groups and establishes boundedness of related harmonic analysis operators on these spaces.
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Boundedness of rak{g}_\u2113 and S_ operators on Morrey spaces.
Kernel estimates for Schrf6dinger operators with nonnegative potentials.
Extension of results to Poisson semigroup operators.
Abstract
Let be a Schr\"odinger operator on the Heisenberg group , where is the sublaplacian on and the nonnegative potential belongs to the reverse H\"older class with . Here is the homogeneous dimension of . Assume that is the heat semigroup generated by . The Littlewood-Paley function and the Lusin area integral associated with the Schr\"odinger operator are defined, respectively, by \begin{equation*} \mathfrak{g}_{\mathcal L}(f)(u) := \bigg(\int_0^{\infty}\bigg|s\frac{d}{ds} e^{-s\mathcal L}f(u) \bigg|^2\frac{ds}{s}\bigg)^{1/2} \end{equation*} and \begin{equation*} \mathcal{S}_{\mathcal L}(f)(u) := \bigg(\iint_{\Gamma(u)} \bigg|s\frac{d}{ds} e^{-s\mathcal…
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Morrey spaces for Schrödinger operators with certain nonnegative potentials, Littlewood-Paley and Lusin functions on the Heisenberg groups
Hua Wang
School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Xinjiang University,
Urumqi 830046, P. R. China
Abstract
Let be a Schrödinger operator on the Heisenberg group , where is the sublaplacian on and the nonnegative potential belongs to the reverse Hölder class with . Here is the homogeneous dimension of . Assume that is the heat semigroup generated by . The Littlewood-Paley function and the Lusin area integral associated with the Schrödinger operator are defined, respectively, by
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and
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where
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In this paper the author first introduces a class of Morrey spaces associated with the Schrödinger operator on . Then by using some pointwise estimates of the kernels related to the nonnegative potential , the author establishes the boundedness properties of these two operators and acting on the Morrey spaces. It can be shown that the same conclusions also hold for the operators and with respect to the Poisson semigroup .
keywords:
Schrödinger operator , Littlewood-Paley function , Lusin area integral , Heisenberg group , Morrey spaces , reverse Hölder class
MSC:
[2010] Primary 42B20 , 35J10 , Secondary 22E25 , 22E30
1 Introduction
1.1 The Heisenberg group
This paper deals with Morrey spaces for Schrödinger operators with certain nonnegative potentials and Littlewood-Paley functions on the Heisenberg groups. The Heisenberg group is the most well-known example from the realm of nilpotent Lie groups and plays an important role in several branches of mathematics, such as representation theory, partial differential equations, several complex variables and harmonic analysis. It is a remarkable fact that the Heisenberg group, an important example of the simply-connected nilpotent Lie group, naturally arises in two fundamental but different settings in modern analysis. On the one hand, it can be identified with the group of translations of the Siegel upper half space in and plays an important role in our understanding of several problems in the complex function theory of the unit ball. On the other hand, it can also be realized as the group of unitary operators generated by the position and momentum operators in the context of quantum mechanics.
We begin by recalling some notions from [16, 30]. We write for the set of natural numbers. The sets of real and complex numbers are denoted by and , respectively. Let be a Heisenberg group of dimension ; that is, a two-step nilpotent Lie group with underlying manifold . The group structure (the multiplication law) is given by
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where , , and . Under this multiplication becomes a nilpotent unimodular Lie group. It is easy to see that the inverse element of is , and the identity is the origin . The corresponding Lie algebra of left-invariant vector fields on is spanned by
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All non-trivial commutation relations are given by
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Here is the usual Lie bracket. The sublaplacian is defined by
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The Heisenberg group has a natural dilation structure which is consistent with the Lie group structure mentioned above. For each positive number , we define the dilation on by
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Observe that () is an automorphism of the group . For given , the homogeneous norm of is given by
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Observe that and
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In addition, this norm satisfies the triangle inequality and then leads to a left-invariant distance for any , . If and , let be the (open) ball with center and radius . The Haar measure on coincides with the Lebesgue measure on . The measure of any measurable set is denoted by . For , it can be proved that the volume of is
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where is the homogeneous dimension of and is the volume of the unit ball in . A direct calculation shows that
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In the sequel, when in and , we shall use the notation to denote the ball with the same center and radius .Clearly, we have
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For various aspects of harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg group, we refer the readers to [30, Chapter XII], [15], [33] and the references therein.
1.2 The Schrödinger operator
A nonnegative locally integrable function on is said to belong to the reverse Hölder class for , if there exists a positive constant such that the reverse Hölder inequality
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holds for every ball in . In this article we will always assume that for and . We now consider the Schrödinger operator with the potential on (see [22]):
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In recent years, the investigation of Schrödinger operators on the Euclidean space with nonnegative potentials which belong to the reverse Hölder class has attracted a lot of attention; see, for example, [9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 27]. For the weighted cases, see [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 28, 31]. As in [22], for given with , we introduce the critical radius function which is defined by
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where denotes the ball in centered at and with radius . It is well known that the auxiliary function determined by satisfies
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for any given (see [22, 23]). We need the following known result concerning the critical radius function (1.3).
Lemma 1.1** ([23]).**
If with , then there exist constants and such that, for any and in ,
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Lemma 1.1 is due to Lu [23] (see also [22, Lemma 4]). In the setting of , this result was first given by Shen in [27, Lemma 1.4]. As a direct consequence of (1.4), we can see that for each fixed , the following estimate
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holds for any with and , is the same as in (1.4). Let be a Schrödinger operator on the Heisenberg group , where is the sublaplacian and the nonnegative potential belongs to the reverse Hölder class with , and is the homogeneous dimension of . Since is nonnegative and belongs to , generates a contraction semigroup \big{\{}\mathcal{T}^{\mathcal{L}}_{s}\big{\}}_{s>0}=\big{\{}e^{-s\mathcal{L}}\big{\}}_{s>0}. Let denote the kernel of the semigroup \big{\{}e^{-s\mathcal{L}}\big{\}}_{s>0}.
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By the Trotter product formula (see [17]), one has
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Moreover, by using the estimates of fundamental solution for the Schrödinger operator on , this estimate (1.6) can be improved when belongs to the reverse Hölder class for some . The auxiliary function arises naturally in this context.
Lemma 1.2** ([22]).**
Let with , and let be the auxiliary function determined by . For every positive integer , there exists a positive constant such that, for any and in ,
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Remark 1.3**.**
* This estimate of is much better than (1.6), which was given by Lin and Liu in [22, Lemma 7].*
* For the Schrödinger operators in a more general setting (such as nilpotent Lie group), see, for example, [20, 21].*
1.3 Littlewood-Paley function and Lusin area integral
The Littlewood-Paley functions play an important role in classical harmonic analysis, for example in the study of non-tangential convergence of Fatou type and boundedness of Riesz transforms and multipliers (see [29]). Assume that \big{\{}e^{-s\mathcal{L}}:s>0\big{\}} is the semigroup generated by . The Littlewood-Paley function associated with the Schrödinger operator on the Heisenberg group is defined by (see [22])
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We also consider the Lusin area integral associated with the Schrödinger operator on , which is defined by (see also [22])
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where
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Recall that in the setting of , these two integral operators were investigated by many authors (see [4], [12], [19] and [26]). In this article we shall be interested in the behavior of the Littlewood-Paley function and the Lusin area integral related to Schrödinger operator on .
For , the Lebesgue space is defined to be the set of all measurable functions on such that
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The weak Lebesgue space consists of all measurable functions defined on such that
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Recently, Lin and Liu [22] established strong-type and weak-type estimates of the operators and on the Lebesgue spaces. Their main results can be formulated as follows.
Theorem 1.4** ([22]).**
Let . Then the following statements are valid
if , then the operator is bounded from to 2. 2.
if , then the operator is bounded from to .
Theorem 1.5** ([22]).**
Let . Then the following statements are valid
if , then the operator is bounded from to 2. 2.
if , then the operator is bounded from to .
Remark 1.6**.**
* It was also proved by Lin and Liu that these two operators are bounded on , and bounded from to .*
* In [34], Zhao introduced and studied the Littlewood-Paley and Lusin functions associated to the sublaplacian operator on (connected) nilpotent Lie groups. The boundedness of Littlewood-Paley and Lusin functions are obtained in this general setting.*
The organization of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we will give the definitions of Morrey space and weak Morrey space associated with Schrödinger operator on .In Section 3, we establish the boundedness properties of the Littlewood-Paley function in the context of Morrey spaces. Section 4 is devoted to proving the boundedness of the Lusin area integral . The generalized Morrey estimates for the operators and are obtained in Section 5. All results hold for the operators and with respect to the Poisson semigroup as well.
Throughout this paper, always denotes a positive constant which is independent of the main parameters involved but whose value may be different from line to line, and a subscript is added when we wish to make clear its dependence on the parameter in the subscript. The symbol means that with some positive constant . If and , then we write to denote the equivalence of and . For any , the notation denotes its conjugate number, namely, and .
2 Definitions of Morrey and weak Morrey spaces
The classical Morrey space was originally introduced by Morrey in [25] to study the local behavior of solutions to second order elliptic partial differential equations. Since then, this space was systematically developed by many authors. Nowadays this space has been studied intensively and widely used in analysis, geometry, mathematical physics and other related fields. For the properties and applications of classical Morrey space, we refer the readers to [1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 32] and the references therein. We denote by the Morrey space, which consists of all -locally integrable functions on such that
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where and . Note that and by the Lebesgue differentiation theorem. If or , then , where is the set of all functions equivalent to 0 on . We also denote by the weak Morrey space, which consists of all measurable functions on such that
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In this section, we introduce some kinds of Morrey spaces associated with the Schrödinger operator on .
Definition 2.7**.**
Let be the auxiliary function determined by with . Let and . For given , the Morrey space is defined to be the set of all -locally integrable functions on such that
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holds for every ball in , and denote the center and radius of , respectively. A norm for , denoted by , is given by the infimum of the constants appearing in (2.1), or equivalently,
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where the supremum is taken over all balls in . Define
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Definition 2.8**.**
Let be the auxiliary function determined by with . Let and . For given , the weak Morrey space is defined to be the set of all measurable functions on such that
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holds for every ball in , or equivalently,
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Correspondingly, we define
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Remark 2.9**.**
* Obviously, if we take or , then this Morrey space (or weak Morrey space ) is just the Morrey space (or weak Morrey space ), which was defined and studied by Guliyev et al. [18].*
* According to the above definitions, one has*
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whenever . Hence,
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for all .
* We can define a norm on the space , which makes it into a Banach space. In view of (2.2), for any given , let*
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Now define the functional by
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It is easy to check that this functional satisfies the axioms of a norm; i.e., that for and ,
it is positive definite: , and
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it is multiplicative:
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it satisfies the triangle inequality: .
* In view of (2.3), for any given , let*
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Similarly, we define the functional by
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By definition, we can easily show that this functional satisfies the axioms of a (quasi-)norm, and is a (quasi-)normed linear space.
Since Morrey space (or weak Morrey space ) could be viewed as an extension of Lebesgue (or weak Lebesgue) space on (when , or ,), it is accordingly natural to investigate the boundedness properties of the Littlewood-Paley functions in the framework of Morrey spaces. In this article we will extend Theorems 1.4 and 1.5 to the Morrey spaces on .
3 Boundedness of the Littlewood-Paley function
In this section, we will establish the boundedness properties of the Littlewood-Paley function acting on for . Recall the Littlewood-Paley function defined in the introduction by
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where \big{\{}e^{-s\mathcal{L}}:s>0\big{\}} is the semigroup generated by . Let denote the kernel of . Then we have
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We now present our main results as follows.
Theorem 3.10**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the Littlewood-Paley operator is bounded on .
Theorem 3.11**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the Littlewood-Paley operator is bounded from to .
We need the following lemma which establishes the estimate of the kernel related to the nonnegative potential and plays a key role in the proofs of our main results. Its proof (based on Lemma 1.2) can be found in [22].
Lemma 3.12** ([22]).**
Let with , and let be the auxiliary function determined by . For every positive integer , there exists a positive constant such that, for any and in ,
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We are now ready to show our main theorems.
Proof of Theorem 3.10.
For any given with and , suppose that for some , where
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By definition, we only need to show that for each fixed ball of , there is some such that
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holds true for with . Using the standard technique, we decompose the function as
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where is the ball centered at of radius , denotes its complement and denotes the characteristic function of the set . Then by the sublinearity of , we write
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In what follows, we consider each part separately. For the first term , by Theorem 1.4 (1), we have
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Moreover, observe that for any fixed ,
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which further implies that
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Next we estimate the other term . We first claim that the following inequality
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holds for any . In fact, from (3.1) and Lemma 3.12, it follows that
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When , then , and hence
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where in the third step we have used the Minkowski inequality. On the other hand, a trivial computation leads to that
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where is a positive constant. It is easy to check that when , one has
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Hence,
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This, together with Minkowski’s inequality for integrals, shows that
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Combining the above two estimates produces the desired inequality (3.5) for any . Notice that for any and , one has
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and
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Thus,
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i.e., . This fact, along with (3.5), implies that for any ,
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In view of (1.5) and (3.4), we can further obtain
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We consider each term in the sum of (3) separately. By using Hölder’s inequality, we can deduce that for each fixed ,
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This allows us to obtain
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Consequently, by choosing large enough such that , and the last series is convergent. Then we have
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where the last inequality follows from the fact that . Summing up the above estimates for and , and letting \vartheta=\max\big{\{}\theta^{*},N\cdot\frac{N_{0}}{N_{0}+1}\big{\}}, with , we obtain the desired inequality (3.3). This concludes the proof of Theorem 3.10. ∎
Proof of Theorem 3.11.
According to the definition, it suffices to prove that for each given ball of , there is some such that
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holds true for given with some and . We decompose the function as
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Then for any given , we can write
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We first give the estimate for the term . By Theorem 1.4 (2), we get
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Therefore, in view of (3.4), we have
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As for the second term , by using the pointwise inequality (3) and Chebyshev’s inequality, we can deduce that
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We consider each term in the sum of (3.9) separately. For each fixed , we have
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Consequently,
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Therefore, by selecting large enough such that , we thus have
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where the last inequality holds because . Now we choose \vartheta=\max\big{\{}\theta^{*},N\cdot\frac{N_{0}}{N_{0}+1}\big{\}} with . Summing up the above estimates for and , and then taking the supremum over all , we obtain the desired inequality (3.8). This concludes the proof of Theorem 3.11. ∎
We also consider the Littlewood-Paley function with respect to the Poisson semigroup \big{\{}e^{-s\sqrt{\mathcal{L}}}\big{\}}_{s>0}, which is defined by
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As illustrated below, this integral operator will be dominated by . To this end, we first recall the subordination formula
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This allows us to obtain
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From this, it follows that for all ,
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Hence, we know that under the conditions of Theorems 3.10 and 3.11, the conclusions also hold for the operator defined in (3).
Theorem 3.13**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded on .
Theorem 3.14**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded from to .
4 Boundedness of the Lusin area integral
In this section, we will study the boundedness properties of the Lusin area integral acting on for . First recall the definition of the Lusin area integral , which is given by
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where \big{\{}e^{-s\mathcal{L}}\big{\}}_{s>0} is the semigroup generated by and denotes the kernel of . Now we present the main results of this section.
Theorem 4.15**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded on .
Theorem 4.16**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded from to .
Proof of Theorem 4.15.
For any given with and , suppose that for some , where
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By definition, we only need to show that for any given ball of , there is some such that
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holds true for given with . Using the standard technique, we decompose the function as
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where is the ball centered at of radius and . Then by the sublinearity of , we write
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Let us estimate the first term . By Theorem 1.5 (1) and (3.4), we get
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We now estimate the second term . We first claim that the following inequality
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holds for any . Arguing as in the proof of Theorem 3.10, two cases are considered below: and . From (4.1) and Lemma 3.12, it follows that
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When , then , and hence
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By Minkowski’s inequality, a straightforward computation yields that
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On the other hand, it is easy to see that
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where is a positive number. Note that when and , then . Indeed, by triangle inequality,
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In addition, it is easy to check that when ,
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Hence, in view of (4.4) and (4.5), we have
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Therefore, applying this estimate along with Minkowski’s inequality, we get
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Combining the above two estimates produces the desired inequality (4.3) for any . Routine arguments as in the proof of Theorem 3.10 show that whenever and . This fact, along with (4.3) and (3.4), implies that
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Moreover, in view of (1.5), we obtain
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We then follow the same arguments as in the proof of Theorem 3.10 to complete the proof. ∎
Proof of Theorem 4.16.
By using the weak-type of (Theorem 1.5 (2)) and the pointwise estimate (4), and following the proof of Theorem 3.11 line by line, we are able to prove the conclusion of Theorem 4.16. The details are omitted here. ∎
Finally, we also consider the Lusin area integral with respect to the Poisson semigroup \big{\{}e^{-s\sqrt{\mathcal{L}}}\big{\}}_{s>0}, which is defined by
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As before, by the subordination formula (3.11), it is not difficult to check that this integral operator is dominated by in some sense. As an immediate consequence of Theorems 4.15 and 4.16, we have the following results.
Theorem 4.17**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded on .
Theorem 4.18**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operator is bounded from to .
5 Further remarks
In the last section, let us give the definitions of the generalized Morrey spaces. Let , be a growth function; that is, a positive increasing function on and satisfy the following doubling condition
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for all , where is a doubling constant independent of .
Definition 5.19**.**
Let be the auxiliary function determined by with . Let and be a growth function. For given , the generalized Morrey space is defined to be the set of all -locally integrable functions on such that
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holds for every ball in , and we denote the smallest constant satisfying (5.1) by .It is easy to see that the functional is a norm on the linear space that makes it into a Banach space under this norm. Define
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Definition 5.20**.**
Let be the auxiliary function determined by with . Let and be a growth function. For given , the generalized weak Morrey space is defined to be the set of all measurable functions on such that
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holds for every ball in , and we denote the smallest constant satisfying (5.2) by . Correspondingly, we define
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Remark 5.21**.**
* As in Section 2, we can also define a norm and a quasi-norm on the linear spaces and , respectively.*
* According to this definition, we recover the spaces and under the choice , for all .*
* In the Euclidean setting, when or , the classes and reduce to the classes and , which were introduced and studied by Mizuhara in [24].*
Using the similar method as in the proofs of Theorems 3.10 through 4.16, we can also prove the following results. The details are omitted here.
Theorem 5.22**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operators and are all bounded on .
Theorem 5.23**.**
Let be as in (1.3). Let and . If with , then the operators and are all bounded from to .
Note that the same conclusions of Theorems 5.22 and 5.23 also hold for the operators and with respect to the Poisson semigroup \big{\{}e^{-s\sqrt{\mathcal{L}}}\big{\}}_{s>0}.
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