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Truncated maximal functions: finiteness, comparison estimates and the good-set bound

Statement

Assume Countable Choice. Let n≥1, 0<p<∞ and let φ∈S(Rn) with ∫φ≠0. For 0<ϵ≤1/2, L>0, T>0 and f∈S′(Rn) define the truncated maximal functions Mφ,0ϵ,Lf(x)=sup⁡0<t<1/ϵ∣(f∗φt)(x)∣ tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣)L, Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)=sup⁡0<t<1/ϵ sup⁡∣x−y∣<t∣(f∗φt)(y)∣ tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)L, Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)=sup⁡0<t<1/ϵ sup⁡y∈Rn∣(f∗φt)(x−y)∣(1+∣y∣/t)TtL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x−y∣)L, MNϵ,Lf(x)=sup⁡ψ∈FNMψ,1ϵ,Lf(x), where Mφ0f, Mφ∗,1f and FN are those of Radial and nontangential maximal functions of a tempered distribution and Grand maximal test class of order N and the grand maximal function. The displayed radial and aperture-one truncation formulas also apply to every Schwartz test ψ, including tests of zero integral; the nonzero-integral hypothesis is needed only for estimates involving the fixed comparison kernel φ. Then:

For a nonnegative Borel function g, write M~g(x) for the supremum of its centered ball averages, with the nonnegative Lebesgue integral allowed to equal +∞. If g∈Lloc1, then M~g=Mg for the centered maximal operator of The centered and uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions.

  1. For every f∈S′ and every 0<p<∞ there is L0=L0(f,n,φ,p)<∞ such that for every L≥L0 and every 0<ϵ≤1/2 the function Mφ,1ϵ,Lf belongs to Lp(Rn) and satisfies Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)≤Cϵ−K(1+∣x∣)−M with some finite C,K,M>0 depending on f,L,p (so the quantity ∥Mφ,1ϵ,Lf∥p is finite).
  2. For every T>0 and L>0 there is N1 such that for every N≥N1, every 0<ϵ≤1/2, every f∈S′ and every x, MNϵ,Lf(x)≤C1 Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x) with C1=C1(n,φ,T,L) independent of ϵ and f.
  3. For every T>0, setting q=n/T and assuming 0<q<p, one has for every 0<ϵ≤1/2, L>0 and f∈S′ Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)q≤M~((Mφ,1ϵ,Lf)q)(x)(x∈Rn),∥Mφ,Tϵ,Lf∥Lp≤C2∥Mφ,1ϵ,Lf∥Lp, where M~ is the extended centered average defined above and C2=C2(n,p,q). The norm inequality is interpreted in the extended sense if its right-hand side is infinite.
  4. For every p0>0, T>0, L>0 and λ>0 there is N2 such that for every N≥N2 there is C3=C3(n,φ,p0,T,L,λ,N)<∞ with the property that for every 0<ϵ≤1/2, every f∈S′ and every x satisfying MNϵ,Lf(x)<λMφ,1ϵ,Lf(x), Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)≤C3 M~((Mφ0f)p0)(x)1/p0.
  5. (Untruncated good-set estimate.) For every p0>0 and λ>0 there is N3 such that for every N≥N3 there is C4=C4(n,φ,p0,λ,N)<∞ with the property that for every f∈S′ and every x with MNf(x)≤λMφ∗,1f(x)<∞, Mφ∗,1f(x)≤C4 M~((Mφ0f)p0)(x)1/p0. The finiteness Mφ∗,1f(x)<∞ is part of the hypothesis: no claim is made at points where Mφ∗,1f(x)=+∞. For every f with Mφ∗,1f finite a.e. the estimate therefore holds a.e. on the set F={MNf≤λMφ∗,1f}.

The point of the truncation is that Mφ,1ϵ,Lf is finite and integrable, so the good-set argument of the last item can be run without an a priori finiteness assumption on Mφ∗,1f; as ϵ↓0 the truncated functions increase pointwise to the untruncated ones. Countable Choice is assumed through dyadic deconvolution and the measure-theoretic estimates used below.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: Countable Choice, n≥1, 0<p<∞, φ∈S with ∫φ≠0, 0<ϵ≤1/2, L,T>0, f∈S′; the maximal functions of Radial and nontangential maximal functions of a tempered distribution and Grand maximal test class of order N and the grand maximal function.

[F1]

Finite-seminorm bound: there are integers N0,M≥0 and C with ∣⟨f,h⟩∣≤Cmax⁡∣α∣≤N0,∣β∣≤Msup⁡z∣zα∂βh(z)∣ for all h∈S. Applying this to h(z)=φt(y−z) gives ∣(f∗φt)(y)∣≤Cφt−(n+M)(1+∣y∣)N0 when 0<t≤1 and ∣(f∗φt)(y)∣≤CφtN0−n(1+∣y∣)N0 when t≥1: for small scales the largest derivative seminorm is bounded by t−n−M, while for large scales it is bounded by t−n and the polynomial weight contributes at most tN0 (Finite seminorm bound characterizes tempered distributions, Schwartz space and its seminorms).

[F2]

The centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is defined for Lloc1 inputs and satisfies ∥Mg∥Lr≤Cn,r∥g∥Lr for 1<r<∞; also M(h1+h2)≤Mh1+Mh2 (The centered and uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions, The centered maximal operator is bounded on Lp(Rn) for 1<p<∞).

[F3]

The deconvolution lemma: for φ with ∫φ≠0 and every pair of positive integers L′,N′, there are Cdec,Mdec,s0>0 such that for every ψ∈S there are ηj∈S with ψ=∑j≥0ηj∗φs02−j in S and ∥ηj∥SN′≤Cdec2−jnL′∥ψ∥SMdec Any smaller positive value of s0 also works, with constants depending on that value (Deconvolution of a Schwartz function along the dyadic dilates of a fixed kernel).

[F4]

For every a∈Rn and r>0, λ(B(a,r))=cnrn with cn=ωn−1/n>0; this follows from the centred-ball formula and translation invariance. Consequently, B(x−y,t)⊆B(x,∣y∣+t) and λ(B(x,∣y∣+t))/λ(B(x−y,t))=(1+∣y∣/t)n (Sphere and ball measures scale in Rn, Lebesgue outer measure, Lebesgue measurability and Lebesgue measure are unchanged by translation, Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space).

[F5]

Translate bound for the test seminorm: for ψ∈S and h∈Rn one has PN(ψ(⋅+h))≤(1+∣h∣)NPN(ψ), because (1+∣w∣)≤(1+∣h∣)(1+∣w+h∣) pointwise; hence for the translated derivative kernel Ψz(w)=(∂jφ)(w+(z−x)/t) and ∣(z−x)/t∣≤r+1 with r≤1 one has PN(Ψz)≤3NPN(∂jφ)≤3NPN+1(φ)<∞. Combining the componentwise bounds for 0≤j<n gives ∣∇(f∗φt)(z)∣≤n times this bound after applying the grand maximal estimate; write cN,φ:=n 3NPN+1(φ) for the resulting gradient constant (Grand maximal test class of order N and the grand maximal function, Schwartz space and its seminorms).

[F6]

For every r>1, Lr(Rn)⊂Lloc1(Rn): if K is compact, it is bounded and has finite measure, and Holder gives ∫K∣g∣≤λ(K)1−1/r∥g∥Lr (Holder's inequality for integrals, including the endpoint cases, Lebesgue measure is sigma-finite, and every metrically bounded subset of Rn has finite outer measure).

[F7]

The radial and aperture-one nontangential maximal functions are Borel measurable for every f∈S′ (Measurability and lower semicontinuity of the smooth maximal functions). For fixed ϵ,L, the truncated aperture-one function is Borel: each strict superlevel set is the union of the open balls B(y,t) indexed by the admissible witnesses whose weighted convolution value exceeds that level. The truncated grand maximal function is Borel by the same open-ball superlevel argument, with tests also indexed over FN. The tangential function is Borel because it is a supremum, over fixed witnesses, of continuous functions of x; smoothness of each convolution is Tempered convolution is smooth with polynomial growth.

Proof technique: weighted distance estimates, the dyadic deconvolution comparison and a mean-value argument on the good set.

Proof

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Finiteness bound. Let N0,M,Cφ be as in [F1], and choose L0=L0(f,n,φ,p) so large that L0>n+M and L0>N0+n/p. Fix L≥L0. For a witness (y,t) with 0<t<1/ϵ and ∣x−y∣<t, write W=∣(f∗φt)(y)∣tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)L. If t≤1, [F1] and t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣≥ϵ(1+∣y∣) give W≤CφtL−(n+M)ϵ−L(1+∣y∣)N0−L≤Cφϵ−L(1+∣y∣)N0−L, because L>n+M. If t≥1, the large-scale bound in [F1] gives W≤CφtL+N0−nϵ−L(1+∣y∣)N0−L≤Cφϵ−(L+max⁡{0,L+N0−n})(1+∣y∣)N0−L, because when L+N0−n≥0 one has tL+N0−n≤ϵ−(L+N0−n), while when L+N0−n<0 the factor is at most 1. Thus in both cases W≤C′ϵ−K(1+∣y∣)−(L−N0) for some finite K. If ∣x∣≥2/ϵ, then ∣y∣≥∣x∣−t≥∣x∣/2, so this is at most C′′ϵ−K(1+∣x∣)−(L−N0). If ∣x∣≤2/ϵ, then 1+∣x∣≤1+2/ϵ≤3/ϵ; absorbing the resulting factor ϵ−(L−N0) gives the same spatial-decay form with a possibly larger finite power of ϵ−1. Taking the supremum over witnesses yields Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)≤Cϵ−K′(1+∣x∣)−(L−N0). Because L>N0+n/p, this bound belongs to Lp(Rn), uniformly for each fixed 0<ϵ≤1/2. By [F7] the maximal function is Borel, so its Lp norm is defined.

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Tangential dominated by aperture one. Fix x,y and 0<t<1/ϵ, and put q=n/T>0 and g=(Mφ,1ϵ,Lf)q, which is nonnegative Borel by [F7]. For every z∈B(x−y,t) the definition gives ∣(f∗φt)(x−y)∣tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x−y∣)L≤Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(z). Raising to the q-th power, averaging with the integral allowed to be infinite, and enlarging the ball using [F4] gives ∣(f∗φt)(x−y)∣qtLq(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x−y∣)Lq≤1λ(B(x−y,t))∫B(x−y,t)g≤(1+∣y∣t)nM~g(x). Since n=Tq, division by (1+∣y∣/t)Tq and taking the supremum over y,t proves the pointwise estimate for every L>0. For the norm estimate assume q<p. If ∥Mφ,1ϵ,Lf∥p=∞, the extended norm inequality is trivial. Otherwise g∈Lp/q, and [F6] gives g∈Lloc1, so M~g=Mg. Applying [F2] with r=p/q>1 yields ∥Mφ,Tϵ,Lf∥pq≤∥Mg∥p/q≤Cn,p,q∥g∥p/q=Cn,p,q∥Mφ,1ϵ,Lf∥pq. Taking q-th roots and renaming the constant proves assertion 3.

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Truncated grand maximal dominated by the truncated tangential maximal function. Fix T>0, L>0 and choose integers L′>L+T and N′>L+T+n, for example L′=⌊L+T⌋+1 and N′=⌊L+T+n⌋+1. Apply [F3] with these parameters, obtaining Cdec,Mdec,s0; by the scaling clause of [F3] we may assume s0≤1, and we take an integer N≥max⁡(Mdec,N′) so that st≤t<1/ϵ for every j and ∥ψ∥SMdec≤1 for ψ∈FN. Write M∗=Mdec. For ψ∈FN, t∈(0,1/ϵ) and x write the deconvolution ψ=∑jηj∗φs02−j and set s=s02−j. If Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)=+∞, assertion 2 is immediate. Otherwise associativity follows from Schwartz parameter pairing and integral interchange applied to H(w)(z)=ηtj(w)φst(x−w−z): each seminorm is bounded by an integrable polynomial weight times ∣ηtj(w)∣. Continuity of f passes the Schwartz deconvolution partial sums to the scalar limit. Thus, with w the integration variable, ∣(f∗ψt)(x)∣≤∑j∫Rn∣(f∗φst)(x−w)∣ ∣ηtj(w)∣ dw. By definition of Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x), for every w and s,t>0 with st<1/ϵ, ∣(f∗φst)(x−w)∣≤Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)(1+∣w∣st)T(st+ϵ+ϵ∣x−w∣)L(st)L. Multiplying by tL/(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣)L and using the triangle inequality ∣x−w∣≤∣x∣+∣w∣, together with ϵ/(t+ϵ)≤1/t (valid since ϵ≤1 and t≤1/ϵ), gives (st+ϵ+ϵ∣x−w∣st)L(tt+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣)L≤(1s+∣w∣st)L. Therefore, substituting w=tu and using N′>L+T+n so (1+∣u∣)L+T−N′ is integrable, ∣(f∗ψt)(x)∣tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣)L≤Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)∑j∫Rn(1+∣u∣s)T(1s+∣u∣s)L∣ηj(u)∣ du≤Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)∑jCT,L,N′s−(T+L)∥ηj∥SN′≤C′Mφ,Tϵ,Lf(x)∑j2j(T+L)2−jnL′=CradMφ,Tϵ,Lf(x), since s≤1, [F3] gives ∥ηj∥SN′≤C2−jnL′∥ψ∥SMdec, and nL′>T+L makes the geometric series converge. The constants are independent of N, ϵ, ψ, t and x; the constant is independent of ϵ because no weight with ϵ remains. The same calculation for an arbitrary Schwartz test θ retains the factor ∥θ∥SM∗ on the right. For a cone witness ∣z−x∣<t and ψ∈FN, put h=(z−x)/t and θ(w)=ψ(w+h), so (f∗θt)(x)=(f∗ψt)(z). Since ∣h∣<1 and N≥M∗, the weighted derivative inequality gives ∥θ∥SM∗≤2M∗, independently of N. Also t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣≤2(t+ϵ+ϵ∣z∣) since ∣x−z∣<t and ϵ≤1. Thus ∣(f∗ψt)(z)∣tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣z∣)L≤2L+M∗CMφ,Tϵ,Lf(x). Taking the supremum over these cone witnesses and tests proves assertion 2, with C1=C1(n,φ,T,L) independent of N and ϵ.

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Good-set bound. Fix p0>0, λ>0, N large enough for the estimate below, 0<ϵ≤1/2, and x with MNϵ,Lf(x)<λMφ,1ϵ,Lf(x). This condition forces Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)<∞: put A=PN(φ)>0 and φ0=φ/A∈FN. For every aperture-one witness (t,y) at x, v=(x−y)/t has ∣v∣<1, and the translated kernel Ψ(w)=φ0(w−v) satisfies PN(Ψ)≤2N by [F5]. Thus Ψ/2N∈FN, (f∗Ψt)(x)=(f∗(φ0)t)(y), and the denominator comparison t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣≤2(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣) gives MNϵ,Lf(x)≥2−N−LA−1Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x). In particular an infinite right-hand side would force an infinite left-hand side, contrary to the strict good-set inequality. If the aperture-one quantity is positive, its finiteness lets us choose t∈(0,1/ϵ) and y with ∣x−y∣<t such that Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)≤2∣h(y)∣tL(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)L,h=f∗φt. If the aperture-one quantity is zero, the strict good-set inequality is impossible because MNϵ,Lf(x)≥0. With c=2LcN,φ, [F5] gives tsup⁡∣z−y∣<rt∣∇h(z)∣≤c MNϵ,Lf(x) (t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)LtL(0<r≤1). Indeed, t∂jh(z)=(f∗Ψtz)(x) for the translated derivative test function Ψz, whose translation length is at most 2; its PN seminorm is at most cN,φ. Also t+ϵ+ϵ∣x∣≤2(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣) because ∣x−y∣<t and ϵ≤1. The mean value theorem and the good-set hypothesis now give ∣h(x′)−h(y)∣≤crλMφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)LtL(x′∈B(y,rt)). Choose 0<r≤1 so crλ≤1/4. The saturation estimate yields ∣h(x′)∣≥14Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)(t+ϵ+ϵ∣y∣)L/tL≥14Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x) on B(y,rt), and ∣h(x′)∣≤Mφ0f(x′). Thus, using the ball inclusion and [F4], Mφ,1ϵ,Lf(x)p0≤4p0(1+rr)n1λ(B(x,(1+r)t))∫B(x,(1+r)t)(Mφ0f)p0. By [F7], (Mφ0f)p0 is Borel, so the extended average defined before assertion 1 applies even if it is not locally integrable. The displayed average is at most M~((Mφ0f)p0)(x), so assertion 4 follows with C3=4((1+r)/r)n/p0.

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Removing truncation. For fixed L,T,N and every fixed admissible witness, the weight tL/(t+ϵ+ϵ∣z∣)L increases to 1 as ϵ↓0, and the permitted scale range increases to all t>0. Hence the radial, aperture-one and tangential truncated functions increase to their corresponding untruncated suprema. The same argument, also taking the supremum over ψ∈FN, gives MNϵ,Lf(x)↑MNf(x). The strict cone ∣z−x∣<t has the same supremum as the closed cone ∣z−x∣≤t, because each convolution is continuous and every boundary point is a limit of interior points at fixed t; therefore this limit is precisely the supplied nontangential MN.

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Untruncated good-set estimate. Let x satisfy MNf(x)≤λMφ∗,1f(x)<∞, with N≥1. If Mφ∗,1f(x)=0, the asserted bound is immediate; otherwise, by definition of the supremum choose t>0,y with ∣x−y∣<t and ∣h(y)∣≥12Mφ∗,1f(x), where h=f∗φt. As in step 1.4 but without truncation weights, tsup⁡∣z−y∣<rt∣∇h(z)∣≤cN,φMNf(x) by [F5]. Choose r≤1 so cN,φrλ≤1/4. The mean value theorem gives ∣h(z)∣≥14Mφ∗,1f(x) on B(y,rt), and ∣h(z)∣≤Mφ0f(z). Using [F4], the ball inclusion and the extended average M~ defined in step 1.4 yields Mφ∗,1f(x)p0≤4p0(1+rr)nM~((Mφ0f)p0)(x). This is assertion 5 with N3=1 and C4=4((1+r)/r)n/p0.

3.1step 1.1step 1.3step 1.2step 1.4step 2.1step 1.5∎

Conclusion. Step 1.1 gives the finiteness and pointwise decay of the aperture-one truncated function; step 1.3 gives the pointwise comparison of the truncated grand maximal function with the truncated tangential one, with constants independent of ϵ; step 1.2 gives the tangential-to-aperture-one comparison via the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator; step 1.4 gives the truncated good-set bound and step 2.1 the untruncated one. Step 1.5 proves the stated monotone limits.

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