The Hardy-Littlewood Theorems
[12/0%]Framework for this section: is -measurable and such that the integral is finite for every compact . For each , define
For each , define , , , and .
Claim 1: Let . Then (a) the mapping on is continuous, and (b) the mapping on is continuous.
Prove Claim 1(b) by mimicking the proof of Claim 1(a).
Claim 2: We have the following: (a) for every , the sets and are open, hence in . In particular, the proof that is open proceeds by picking (the case being trivial, since then by the nonnegativity of ) and, in the nonempty case, taking : since , there is with , and continuity (Claim 1(b), applied to the mapping on ) then produces with .
In Claim 2(a), mimic the proof of the fact that is open to show that is open.
Claim 3: Let . The following equalities and inequalities obtain: (a) ; (b) ; (c) .
Prove Claim 3(b) by mimicking the proof of Claim 3(a).
Claim 4: Let and . We have the following: (a) ; (b) ; (c) .
Prove Claim 4(b) by mimicking the proof of Claim 4(a).
Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem: Let . We have the following inequalities: (a) . Therefore, forces and . (b) . Therefore, forces both and . (c) . Therefore, forces both and .
Prove (b) of the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem for by a fashion similar to that for the proof of part (a) there.
In the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem, we had . There is a version of the theorem for the case . The framework is the same as in the case: is -measurable and such that for every compact . The theorem is this: Let and . Then
and
Also, we have
Here, denotes .
Verify each of the following steps by appealing to the appropriate results of this section:
Next, show that is zero or as or . That is, show that for each . This gives the -inequality, and the -inequality is achieved in virtually the same fashion. For the -inequality, the same argument as above also works upon replacing by , by , and using the inequality in .
Recall the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem, where : if , then and
One question that may arise is whether the constants and are the sharpest possible constants. It will turn out that the answer is in the affirmative. Fix , and for each define on by the rule . Let be such that . Show that , and deduce that the constant in the Hardy-Littlewood Inequality is the best possible constant.
It is straightforward calculus to compute for each . To obtain the form of for each and , consider the cases and and use calculus; this won't be hard but it won't be trivial. From this may be obtained for each , so that the ratio may be computed for each . That this quotient tends to as should be seen in straightforward fashion.
For a function as given in the framework for this section [ is -measurable and such that for every compact ], we defined to be the maximum of and . We may equivalently define for each by the rule
Comment: Our presentation in the text and in the exercises is based on one form of the Hardy-Littlewood framework. We now present a series of exercises dealing with a more general framework. The measure space will be , where is fixed. The notation denotes the ball of radius centered at . Given , we will write for . The following exercises give the background leading up to Jones' presentation of an alternative version of the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem.
Prove the Vitali Covering Theorem: Let be bounded. Let denote a collection of open balls centered at points of such that every is the center of some ball in . Then there exists an at most countable subcollection of balls in such that (i) are disjoint, and (ii) . Follow the given outline.
The theorem is immediate if the radii of the balls are not bounded above.
There is such that .
We have , hence .
, hence , completing the proof.
(a) In this case, we can find a ball centered at some point of with radius so large that , trivially giving (i) and (ii). Therefore, we may assume that the radii of the balls is bounded above. And of course we may assume that is nonempty.
Perform the following inductive scheme: Assume that have been selected. Let . If there are no with , the scheme terminates with the sets . Otherwise, choose such that and .
The above scheme is problem-free, and the resulting collection is clearly disjoint. We must show that . Fix and find that is centered at .
(b) Suppose that for each . Then the selection process never terminates and for each . Therefore, we have a countably infinite collection of balls centered at points of with . Now is bounded since is bounded and the radii of the balls in are bounded above, and hence . But at the same time by the earlier inequality. This contradiction gives the result.
By (b) there is with . Let henceforth denote the smallest such with . Pick .
(d) Let denote the center of . Then . Therefore, we have that .
Definition: Let be such that for each compact . The Hardy-Littlewood maximal function for is the function on given for all by
is lower semicontinuous, hence is -measurable. In particular, is -measurable.
Suppose that . There is such that . We may choose such that the inequality obtains. Now forces , and the translation invariance of gives
Therefore, for all sufficiently close to we have .
Let . Then for each . This is another version of the Hardy-Littlewood Maximal Theorem.
Let denote , where is given and fixed. If the result is trivial. Otherwise, pick , so that and there is with . Therefore, for any there is a ball with center such that . Pick positive real , and let denote the collection of open balls with centers in and satisfying the just-mentioned inequality. If , there exist disjoint balls such that . (Vitali Covering Theorem.) Verify that
Now let for the result.
Reconsider Exercise 3 of Section 10.4 in the light of this section.