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ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER Abstract. Given Mihlin-Hörmander multipliers m i, i = 1,..., N, with uniform estimates we prove an optimal p log(n + 1) bound in L p for the maximal function i F 1 [m i b f] and related bounds for maximal functions generated by dilations. These improve results in [7]. Given a symbol m satisfying 1. Introduction (1.1) α m(ξ) C α ξ α for all multiindices α, then by classical Calderón-Zygmund theory the operator f F 1 [m f] defines an L p bounded operator. We study two types of maximal operators associated to such symbols. First we consider N multipliers m 1,..., m N satisfying uniformly the conditions (1.1) and as for bounds (1.2) F 1 [m i f] p A(N) f p, 1 i N for all f S. Secondly we form two maximal functions generated by dilations of a single multiplier, (1.3) M dyad m f(x) = Z F 1 [m(2 ) f] (1.4) M m f(x) = F 1 [m(t ) f] t> and as under what additional conditions on m these define bounded operators on L p. Concerning (1.3), (1.4) a counterexample in [7] shows that in general additional conditions on m are needed for the maximal inequality to hold; moreover positive results were shown using rather wea decay assumptions on m. The counterexample also shows that the optimal uniform bound in (1.2) satisfies (1.5) A(N) c log(n + 1). Date: October 26, 24. Grafaos and Seeger were ported in part by NSF grants. Honzí was ported by 21/3/931 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. 1

2 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER The extrapolation argument in [7] only gives the upper bound A(N) = O(log(N + 1)) and the main purpose of this paper is to close this gap and to show that the upper bound is indeed O( log(n + 1)). We will formulate our theorems with minimal smoothness assumptions that will be described now. Let φ C (Rd ) be ported in {ξ : 1/2 < ξ < 2} so that φ(2 ξ) = 1 Z for all ξ R d \ {}. Let η C c (R d ) so that η is even, η (x) = 1 for x 1/2 and η is ported where x 1. For l > let η l (x) = η (2 l (x)) η (2 l+1 x) and define In what follows we set H,l [m](x) = η l (x)f 1 [φm(2 )](x). m Y (q,α) := Z 2 lα H,l [m] L q. l Using the Hausdorff-Young inequality one gets (1.6) m Y (r,α) φm(2 ) B r α,1, if 1 r 2 Z where Bα,1 r is the usual Besov space; this is well nown, for a proof see Lemma 3.3 below. Thus if m belongs to Y (2, d/2), then it is a Fourier multiplier on L p (R d ), for 1 < p < (this follows from a slight modification of Stein s approach in [16], ch. IV.3, see also [15] for a related endpoint bound). Theorem 1.1. Suppose that 1 r < 2 and pose that the multipliers m i, i = 1,..., N satisfy the condition (1.7) m i Y (r,d/r) B <. i Then for r < p <,...,N F 1 [m i f] p C p,r B log(n + 1) f p. In particular, the conclusion of Theorem 1.1 holds if the multipliers m i satisfy estimates (1.1) uniformly in i. By (1.6) we immediately get Corollary 1.2. Suppose that 1 < r < 2, and (1.8) φm i (t ) B r d/r,1 A. 1 i N t> Then for r < p <,...,N F 1 [m i f] p C p,r A log(n + 1) f p.

ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS 3 Remar. If one uses Y (, d + ε) in (1.7) or Bd+ε,1 1 in (1.8) one can use Calderón-Zygmund theory (see [8], [7]) to prove the H 1 L 1 boundedness and the wea type (1, 1) inequality, both with constant O( log(n + 1)). Our second result is concerned with the operators M dyad m, M m generated by dilations. Theorem 1.3. Suppose 1 < p <, q = min{p, 2}. (i) Suppose that (1.9) φm(2 ) L q α ω(), Z, holds for α > d/q and pose that the nonincreasing rearrangement ω satisfies (1.1) ω ω (l) () + l log l <. l=2 Then M dyad m is bounded on L p (R d ). (ii) Suppose that (1.1) holds and (1.9) holds for α > d/p + 1/p if 1 < p 2 or for α > d/2 + 1/p if p > 2. Then M m is bounded on L p (R d ). If (1.9), (1.1) are satisfied with q = 1, α > d then M m is of wea type (1, 1), and M m maps H 1 to L 1. This improves the earlier result in [7] where the conclusion is obtained under the assumption l=2 ω (l)/l <, however somewhat weaer smoothness assumptions were made in [7]. In 2 we shall discuss model cases for Rademacher expansions. In 3 we shall give the outline of the proof of Theorem 1.1 which is based on the exp(l 2 ) estimate by Chang-Wilson-Wolff [5], for functions with bounded Littlewood-Paley square-function. The proof of a critical pointwise inequality is given in 4. The proof of Theorem 1.3 is setched in 5. Some open problems are mentioned in 6. Acnowledgement: The second named author would lie to than Luboš Pic for a helpful conversation concerning convolution inequalities in rearrangement invariant function spaces. 2. Dyadic model cases for Rademacher expansions Before we discuss the proof of Theorem 1.1 we give a simple result on expansions for Rademacher functions r j on [, 1] which motivated the proof. Proposition 2.1. Let a i l 2. and let F i (s) = j a i jr j (s), s [, 1]. Then F i L i<n 2 [,1] ai l 2 log(n + 1).

4 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER Proof. We use the well nown estimate for the distribution function of the Rademacher expansions ([16], p. 277), (2.1) meas ( {s [, 1] : F i (s) > λ} ) 2 exp ( ) λ2 4 a i 2 l 2 Set u N = (4 log(n + 1)) 1/2 1 i N a i l 2. Then,...,N u 2 N + 4 F i 2 2 u2 N + 2 N u N λe N u N λ2 /(4 ai 2 λ meas ( {s : F i (s) > λ} ) dλ l 2 ) dλ u 2 N + 4,...,N a i 2 l 2 Ne u2 N /4 which is bounded by (1 + 4 log(n + 1)) i a i 2 l 2. The claim follows. There is a multiplier interpretation to this inequality. One can wor with a single function f = a j r j and a family of bounded sequences (or multipliers) {b i } and one forms F i (s) = j bi j a jr j (s). The norm then grows as a square root of the logarithm of the number of multipliers; i.e. we have Corollary 2.2. b i ja j r j L,...,N j 2 ([,1]) i b i L log(n + 1) a j r j. 2 ([,1]) We shall now consider a dyadic model case for the maximal operators generated by dilations. Proposition 2.3. Consider a sequence b = {b i } i Z which satisfies b (l) A (log(l + 2)) 1/2. Then for any sequence a = {a n } n=1 we have b j a j r j 2 CA a 2. Z j= Proof. We may assume that both a and b are real valued sequences. Let H (s) = b j a j r j (s). j=1 Then by orthogonality of the Rademacher functions H 2 2 = [b j a j ] 2. j=1 We shall use a result of Calderón [4] which states that if some linear operator is bounded on L 1 (µ) and on L (µ) on a space with σ-finite measure µ, then it is bounded on all rearrangement invariant function spaces on that space. j

ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS 5 In our case the intermediate space is the Orlicz space exp l, which coincides with the space of all sequences γ = {γ j } j Z that satisfy the condition (2.2) γ (l) C log(l + 2), l, and the best constant in 2.2 is equivalent to the norm in exp(l). We apply Calderón s result to the operator T defined by [T γ] = γ j a 2 j and get l j=1 log(l + 2)(T γ) (l) C {a 2 n} l 1 log(l + 2)γ (l). l Let c = H 2 ([T (b 2 )] ) 1/2 where b 2 stands for the sequence {b 2 j }; then by our bound for T γ and the assumption on b it follows that (2.3) c ) 1/2. (l) C 1 A a l 2( log(2 + l) We can proceed with the proof as in Proposition 2.1, using again (2.1), i.e. meas({s [, 1] : H (s) > α}) 2e α2 /4c 2. Then we obtain for u > H 2 u 2 + 4 u 2 + 8 αe α2 /4c 2 u c 2 e u2 /(4c 2 ) = u 2 + 8 l (c (l)) 2 e u2 /4(c (l)) 2. We set the cutoff level to be u = 1C 1 A a 2 and obtain H 2 2 u 2 + C1A 2 2 + l) l (2 5/2 A 2 a 2 2 which is what we wanted to prove. Remar: Since the L p norm of a j r j is equivalent to the l 2 norm of {a j } one can also prove L p analogues of the two propositions, for < p <. 3. Proof of Theorem 1.1 To prove (1.2) we may assume that f is compactly ported in R d \ {} and thus we may assume that the multipliers m i are compactly ported on a finite union of dyadic annuli. In view of the scale invariance of the assumptions we may assume without loss of generality that (3.1) m i (ξ) =, ξ 2 N, i = 1,..., N.

6 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER In the case of Fourier multipliers the inequality (2.1) will be replaced by a good-λ inequality involving square-functions for martingales as proved by Chang, Wilson and Wolff [5]. To fix notation let, for any, Q denote the family of dyadic cubes of sidelength 2 ; each Q is of the form d [n i2, (n i + 1)2 ). Denote by E the conditional expectation, E f(x) = χ Q (x) 1 f(y)dy Q Q Q Q and by D the martingale differences, D f(x) = E +1 f(x) E f(x). The square function for the dyadic martingale is defined by ( S(f) = D f(x) 2) 1/2 ; one has the inequality S(f) p C p f p for 1 < p < (see [3], [2] for the general martingale case, and for our special case cf. also Lemma 3.1 below). The result from [5] says that there is a constant c d > so that for all λ >, < ε < 1, one has (3.2) meas ({ x : E g(x) E g(x) > 2λ, S(g) < ɛλ }) ) Cexp( c d ɛ 2 )meas({ x : E g(x) > ελ }) ; see [5] (Corollary 3.1 and a remar on page 236). To use (3.2) we need a pointwise inequality for square functions applied to convolution operators. Choose a radial Schwartz function ψ which equals 1 on the port of φ (defined in the introduction) and is compactly ported in R d \ {}, and define the Littlewood-Paley operator L by (3.3) L f(ξ) = ψ(2 ξ) f(ξ) Let M be the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator and define the operator M r by M r = (M( f r )) 1/r. Denote by M = M M M the three-fold iteration of the maximal operator. Now define ( ( (3.4) G r (f) = M[ L f r ] ) ) 2/r 1/2. Z From the Fefferman-Stein inequality for vector-valued maximal functions [9], (3.5) G r (f) p C p,r f p, 1 < r < 2, r < p <.

ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS 7 Lemma 3.1. Let T f = F 1 [m f] and let 1 < r. Then for x R d, (3.6) S(T f)(x) A r m Y (r,d/r)g r (f)(x). The proof will be given in 4. We shall also need Lemma 3.2. Let T f = F 1 [m f] and pose that m(ξ) = for ξ 2 N. Then (3.7) E T f(x) C2 N/r C r m Y (r,d/r)(m( f r )) 1/r. We now give the proof of Theorem 1.1. Let T i f = F 1 [m i f]. We need to estimate T i f 1/p. p = (p4 p λ p 1 meas({x : T i f(x) > 4λ})dλ) 1 i N i Now by Lemma 3.1 one gets the pointwise bound (3.8) S(T i f) A r B G r (f). We note that {x : T i f(x) > 4λ} E λ,1 E λ,2 E λ,3 1 i N where with ( c d (3.9) ε N := 1 log(n + 1) we have set By (3.8), ) 1/2 E λ,1 = {x : T i f(x) E T i f(x) > 2λ, G r (f)(x) ε Nλ 1 i N A r B }, E λ,2 = {x : G r (f)(x) > ε Nλ A r B }, E λ,3 = {x : 1 i N (3.1) E λ,1 E T i f(x) > 2λ}. N {x : T i f(x) > 2λ, S(T i f) ε N λ}, and thus using the good-λ inequality (3.2) we obtain meas(e λ,1 ) N meas ( {x : T i f(x) E T i f(x) > 2λ, S(T i f) ε N λ} ) N C exp( c d ε 2 N )meas({x : E (T i f) > λ}).

8 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER Hence (3.11) ( p ( N ) 1/p λ p 1 meas(e λ,1 )dλ exp( c d ε 2 N ) E (T i f) ) p 1/p p ( N exp( c d ) T ε 2 i f ) p 1/p N p B ( N exp( c d ) ) 1/p ε 2 f p B f p N uniformly in N (by our choice of ε N in (3.9)). Next, by a change of variable, ( ) 1/p p λ p 1 A r B meas(e λ,2 )dλ = G r (f) p (3.12) ε N B log(n + 1) f p Finally, from Lemma 3.2 and the Fefferman-Stein inequality and thus (3.13) ( p meas(e λ,3 ) N meas ( {x : E T i f(x) > 2λ} ) 1/p λ p 1 meas(e λ,3 )dλ) = 2 E (T i f) p,...,n ( N 2 E (T i f) p) p 1/p BN 1/p 2 N/r f p B f p. The asserted inequality follows from (3.11), (3.12), and (3.13). For completeness we mention the well nown relation of the Y (r, α) conditions with Besov and Sobolev norms. Lemma 3.3. Let 1 r 2 and α > d/r. Then m Y (r,d/r) φm(2 ) B r d/r,1 φm(2 ) L r α φm(2 ) L 2 α Proof. By the Hausdorff-Young inequality and the definition of the Besov space we have 2 ld/r H,l r 2 ld/r [φm(2 )] η l r φm(2 ) B r d/r,1. l= l=

ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS 9 By elementary imbedding properties g B r d/r,1 g L r γ if γ > d/r. Finally φm(2 ) L r γ C r φm(2 ) L 2 γ, if 1 < r 2. In this last inequality we used that for χ Cc we have χg r L γ g r L 1 γ for r r 1, γ ; this is trivial for integers γ from Hölder s inequality and follows for all γ by interpolation. 4. Proofs of Lemma 3.1 and Lemma 3.2 Choose a radial Schwartz function β with the property that β is ported in {x : x 1/4} so that β(ξ) in {ξ : 1/4 ξ 4} and β() =. Now choose a function ψ Cc so that ψ(ξ)(β(ξ)) 2 = 1 for all ξ p φ, here φ is as in the formulation of the theorem. Define operators T, B, L by T f(ξ) = φ(2 ξ)m(ξ) f(ξ) B f(ξ) = β(2 ξ) f(ξ) L f(ξ) = ψ(2 ξ) f(ξ). Then T = T = B2 L T L and we write (4.1) D T f = n Z Sublemma 4.1. (D B +n )(B +n L+n )T +n L +n f. (4.2) B L f(x) Mf(x). Proof. Immediate. Sublemma 4.2. For s, (4.3) and E +1 B +s f(x) + E B +s f(x) 2 s/q M q f(x) (4.4) D B s f(x) 2 s Mf(x). Proof. We give the proof although the estimates are rather standard (for similar calculations in other contexts see for example [6], [12], [1], [13]). For (4.3) first note this inequality is trivial if s is small and assume, say, s 1. For Q Q, s > let b s (Q) be the set of all x Q for which the l distance to the boundary of Q is 2 s+1. Fix a cube Q Q +1. If Q is a dyadic subcube of sidelength 2 s+1 subcube which is not contained in b s (Q) then B +s [fχ Q ] is ported in Q and using the cancellation of F 1 [β] we see that E +1 B +s [χ Q g] = for all g. Let V s (Q ) be the union over all dyadic cubes of sidelength 2 s+1 whose closures intersect the boundary of Q. Then E +1 B +s [χ Q g] = E +1 B +s [gχ Vs(Q )] for all g. In view of the port properties of β we note that B +s [gχ Vs(Q )] is also ported in V s 1 (Q ). Observe that this set has measure O(2 d 2 s ).

1 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER It follows that for x Q E +1 B +s f(x) 2 d Q 1 V s 1 (Q ) B +s [χ Vs(Q )f](y) dy Q 1( Q f(y) q dy ) 1/q 2 (d+s)/q 2 s/q ( M( f q ) ) 1/q By the same argument one obtains this bound also for E B +s f and thus (4.3) follows. The inequality (4.4) D B s f is a simple consequence of the smoothness of the convolution ernel of B s and the cancellation properties of the operator D = E +1 E. Sublemma 4.3. Let 1 < r <. We have (4.5) T f(x) C m Y (r,d/r)m r f(x). Proof. We may decompose T using the ernels H,l and obtain T f(x) = l= (2 d l= 2 d H,l (2 y)f(x y)dy ) 1/r ) 1/r H,l (2 y) r dy (2 d f(x y) r dy y 2 +l 2 ld/r H,l r ( M( f r )(x) ) 1/r. l= Proof of Lemma 3.1. To estimate the terms in (4.1) we use Sublemma 4.1 to bound B +n L+n, Sublemma 4.2 to bound D B +n and Sublemma 4.3 to bound T +n. This yields that D B+n 2 L +n T +n L +n f(x) m Y (r,d/r) { 2 n/q M q M M r (L +n f)(x) if n 2 n M M M r (L +n f)(x) if n <, and straightforward estimates imply the asserted bound. Proof of Lemma 3.2. sublemmas we get We split E T f = N 2 E B 2 L T, and by the E B 2 L T f(x) 2 /r m Y (r,d/r)m r M M r (f)(x) which implies the assertion.

ON MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS FOR MIKHLIN-HÖRMANDER MULTIPLIERS 11 5. Maximal functions generated by dilations For the proof of Theorem 1.3 we use arguments in [7] and applications of Theorem 1.1. Let us first consider the dyadic maximal operator M dyad m. Let I j = { Z : ω (2 2j ) < ω() ω (2 2j 1 )}. We split m = j m j where m j is ported in the union of dyadic annuli Ij {ξ : 2 1 < ξ < 2 +1 }. By Lemma 3.1 in [7] we can find a sequence of integers B = {i} so that for each j the sets b i + I j are pairwise disjoint, and Z = 42j +1 Let T j f = F 1 [m j (2 ) f]. We write (5.1) T f = T bi +nf n 4 2j +1 i Z n= 4 2j +1 (n + B). and split the in i according to whether i >, i =, i <. We use the standard equivalence of the L p norm of expansions of Rademacher functions {r i } with the l2 norm of the sequence of coefficients (see [16], p. 276). Then n 4 2j +1 T j b i +n f p i> C p n 4 2j +1 n 4 2j +1 C p ( 1 ( 1 = C p ( T j b i +n f 2) 1/2 p i> ( 1 r i (s)t j b i +n f p ) 1/p p ds n 4 2j +1 n 4 2j r i (s)t j b i +n f p ) 1/p p ds r i (s)t j b i +n f p p ds ) 1/p which reduce matters for the dyadic maximal function to an application of Theorem 1.1 (of course the terms above with i are handled similarly). Thus we obtain the estimate M dyad m j L p L p 2j/2 ω (2 2j 1 ). For the full maximal operator we use standard decompositions by smoothing out the rescaled dyadic pieces. We just setch the argument. Assume that p 2 and that the assumption of Theorem 1.3, (ii), with α > d/2+1/p holds. Then one can decompose m j = l m j,l where m j,l has essentially the same port property as m j (with slightly extended dyadic annuli) and where φm j,l (2 ) L 2 α 1/p + 2 l φ ξ, [m j,l (2 )] L 2 α 1/p ω (2 2j 1 )2 l/p.

12 LOUKAS GRAFAKOS, PETR HONZÍK, ANDREAS SEEGER One then uses a standard argument (see e.g. [17], p. 499) to see that t> F 1 [m j,l (t ) f] C > ) 1 p p ( 2 C F 1 [m j,l (2 u ) f] p du 1 F 1 [m j,l (2 ) f] + ( 2 ( / u)f 1 [m j,l (2 u ) f] p du 1 ) 1 p 2 and straightforward estimates reduce matters to the dyadic case treated above. For the wea-type estimate (or the H 1 L 1 estimate) one has to combine this argument with Calderón-Zygmund theory and the L p estimates for 1 < p < 2 follow then by an analytic interpolation. Similar arguments appear in [8] and [7]; we omit the details. 6. Open problems Concerning Theorem 1.1 one can as about L p boundedness for p > 2 under merely the assumption m i Y (p, α), α > d/p. Combining our present result with those in [7] one can show that if for some 2 < r < (6.1) m i Y (r,α) A, i then for r p < (6.2),...,N α > d/r F 1 [m i f] p C p,r,α A(log(N + 1)) 1/r f p. Indeed one can imbed the multipliers in analytic families so that for L BMO boundedness one has Y (1 + ε 1, ε 2 ) conditions and the O(log(N + 1)) result of [7] applies. For p = 2 on has the usual Y (2, d/2 + ε) conditions and Theorem 1.1 applies giving an O((log(N + 1)) 1/2 ) bound. Problem 1: Does (6.2) hold with an O( log(n + 1)) bound if we assuming (6.1) with r > 2? Problem 2: To which extent can one relax the smoothness conditions in Theorems 1.1 and 1.3 to obtain L 2 bounds? In particular what happens in Theorem 1.3 if one imposes localized L 2 α conditions for α < d/2, assuming again minimal decay assumptions on ω. Finally we discuss possible optimal decay estimates for the maximal operators generated by dilations. The hypothesis in Theorem 1.3 is equivalent with the assumption {2 j/2 ω (2 2j )} l 1. The counterexamples in [7] leave open the possibility that the conclusion of Theorem 1.1 might hold under the weaer assumption {2 j/2 ω (2 2j )} l, i.e. (6.3) ω (l) C ( log(2 + l) ) 1/2 ; this is in fact suggested by the dyadic model case in Proposition 2.3. The latter condition would be optimal and leads us to formulate

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