1. Introduction and main results
This paper is devoted to exploring the behaviours of the commutators of multilinear operators in weighted Hardy spaces. As well known, multilinear Calderón–Zygmund theory was introduced and first investigated by Coifman and Meyer [Reference Coifman and Meyer1, Reference Coifman and Meyer2]. Later on, the topic was retaken by several authors: including Grafakos and Torres [Reference Grafakos and Torres10], Lerner et al. [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi, Pérez, Torres and Trujillo-González15] and Cruz-Uribe et al. [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4], etc. We first recall the definition of multilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators.
Definition 1.1 Assume that $K(y_0,\,y_1,\,\ldots,\,y_m)$ is a function defined away from the diagonal $y_0=y_1=\cdots =y_m$ in $(\mathbb {R}^n)^{m+1}$, which satisfies the following estimates
for all $\alpha =(\alpha _0,\,\cdots,\,\alpha _m)$ such that $|\alpha |=|\alpha _0|+\cdots +|\alpha _m|\leq N$, where $|\alpha _j|$ is the order of each multi-index $\alpha _j$, and $N$ is a large integer to be determined later. An m-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator is a multilinear operator $T$ that satisfies
for some $1< q_1,\,\ldots,\,q_m<\infty$ and $1/q=1/q_1+\cdots +1/q_m,$ $T$ has the integral representation
whenever $f_i\in L_c^\infty$ and $x\notin \cap _i {\rm supp} f_i.$
It was shown in [Reference Grafakos and Torres9] that if $T$ is an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator, $1/p_1+\cdots +1/p_m=1/p$ and $p_0=\min \{p_j,\,j=1,\,\ldots,\,m\}>1$, then $T$ is bounded from $L^{p_1}(\omega )\times \cdots \times L^{p_m}(\omega )$ into $L^p(\omega )$, provided that the weight $\omega$ is in the class $A_{p_0}$(see subsection 2.1 for the definition of $A_{p_0}$). In 2001, Grafakos and Kalton [Reference Grafakos and Kalton8] discussed the boundedness of multilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators on the product of Hardy spaces. Later on, Cruz-Uribe et al. [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4] generalized the results in [Reference Grafakos and Kalton8] to the weighted Hardy spaces. Precisely,
Theorem A. (cf. [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4]) Let $0< p_1,\,\ldots,\,p_m<\infty$, $\omega _i\in A_\infty$, $1\leq i\leq m$ and
Suppose that $T$ is an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator associated to a kernel $K$ that satisfies (1.1) with
Then
where $\nu _{\vec \omega }=\Pi _{i=1}^m\omega _i^{p/p_i}$, $q_\omega :=\inf \{ q>1:\omega \in A_q \}$.
In this paper, we will focus on the commutators of multilinear operators. For an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator $T$ and a collection of locally integral functions $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$, the multilinear commutators generated by $T$ and $\vec b$ are defined as follows:
where
The $m$-linear commutators were considered by Pérez and Torres in [Reference Pérez and Torres20]. Lerner et al. [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi, Pérez, Torres and Trujillo-González15] introduced the multiple weight $A_{\vec P}$ (see definition 3.5 in [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi, Pérez, Torres and Trujillo-González15]), and they proved that when $\vec b\in ({\rm BMO})^m$, $[\vec b,\,T]$ is bounded from $L^{p_1}(\omega _1)\times \cdots \times L^{p_m}(\omega _m)$ to $L^p(\nu _{\vec \omega })$ for $\vec \omega =(\omega _1,\,\ldots,\,\omega _m)\in A_{\vec P}$, the multiple Muckenhoupt class, where $1/p_1+\cdots +1/p_m=1/p$ and $\nu _{\vec \omega }=\prod _{i=1}^m\omega _i^{p/p_i}$. Moreover, inspired by the remarkable work of Lerner et al. [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi and Rivera-Ríos16], Kunwar and Ou [Reference Kunwar and Ou14] obtained the Bloom type two-weight inequalities of $[\vec b,\,T]$. Precisely, $1< p_i<\infty$ and $1/p_1+\cdots +1/p_m=1/p$, $\lambda _i,\,\mu _i\in A_{p_i}$, $\nu _i=(\mu _i/\lambda _i)^{1/p_i}$, $\nu _{\vec \lambda }=\prod _{i=1}^m\lambda _i^{p/p_i}$, for $b\in \rm {BMO}_{\nu _i}$(see definition in [Reference Kunwar and Ou14]), $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$, it holds that
On the other hand, for $m=1$, in the endpoint case, Harboure et al. [Reference Harboure, Segovia and Torrea11] showed that for general $b\in \rm {BMO}(\mathbb {R}^n)$, the linear commutator $[b,\,T]$ cannot be bounded from $H^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ to $L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$. However, Liang et al. [Reference Liang, Ky and Yang19] and Huy et al. [Reference Huy and Ky13] found out $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}$ (see subsection 2.2 for the definition and properties), a non-trivial subspace of ${\rm BMO}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ for some Muckenhoupt weights $\omega$ and $0< p\le 1$, such that $[b,\,{T}]$ is bounded from the weighted Hardy spaces $H^p(\omega )$ to the weighted Lebesgue spaces $L^p(\omega )$, when $b\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}$. For the multilinear setting, He and Liang [Reference He and Liang12] recently proved that $[\vec b,\, T]$ is bounded from $H^1(\omega )\times \cdots \times H^1(\omega )$ to $L^{1/m}(\omega )$, when $\vec b\in (\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,1})^m$.
Based on the results above, it is natural to ask the following question.
Question. Is $[\vec b,\,T]$ bounded from $H^{p_1}(\omega )\times \cdots \times H^{p_m}(\omega )$ to $L^{p}(\omega )$ for some $0< p_i<1,\,~1\leq i\leq m$, when $b_i\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_i}$, the non-trivial subspaces of ${\rm BMO}(\mathbb {R}^n)$?
One of the main purpose in this paper is to address the question above. Our result can be formulated as follows.
Theorem 1.2 Let $0< p_i\leq 1,$ $1\leq i\leq m,$ and
Suppose that $\omega \in A_{\infty }$ with $\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}\frac {\omega (x)}{(1+|x|)^{np_0}}<\infty$ with $p_0=\min _{1\le i\le m}p_i,$ $T$ is an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator with $K$ that satisfies (1.1) with
Then for $\vec b=(b_1,\,b_2,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$, $b_i\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_i},\,1\le i\le m,$
Moreover, we consider the maximal truncated multilinear commutators. Let $K$ satisfy (1.1), the maximal truncated multilinear operator is defined by
where $K_\delta (x,\,y_1,\,\ldots,\,y_m)=\phi (\sqrt {|x-y_1|^2+\cdots +|x-y_m|^2}/2\delta )K(x,\,y_1,\,\ldots,\,y_m)$ and $\phi (x)$ is a smooth function on $\mathbb {R}^n$, which vanishes if $|x|\leq 1/4$ and is equal to 1 if $|x|>1/2$. Given a collection of locally integral functions $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$, the maximal truncated multilinear commutators are defined by
where
The boundedness of $T^*$ on the weighted Lebesgue spaces was first given by Grafakos and Torres [Reference Grafakos and Torres9]. Subsequently, Grafakos and Kalton [Reference Grafakos and Kalton8] and Li et al. [Reference Li, Xue and Yabuta18] successively discussed the boundedness of $T^*$ on Hardy spaces and weighted Hardy spaces. Recently, Wen et al. [Reference Wen, Wu and Xue21] extended and improved the results of [Reference Grafakos and Kalton8] and [Reference Li, Xue and Yabuta18] as follows.
Theorem B. (cf. [Reference Wen, Wu and Xue21]) Let $0< p_1,\,\ldots,\,p_m<\infty$, $\omega _i\in A_\infty$, $1\leq i\leq m$, and
Suppose that $T^*$ is defined as in (1.3) and $K$ satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem A. Then
where $\nu _{\vec \omega }=\prod _{i=1}^m\omega _i^{p/p_i}$.
Inspired by the results above, for the maximal truncated multilinear commutator $T^*_{\vec b}$, we can obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 1.3 Let $0< p_i\leq 1,$ $1\leq i\leq m,$ and
Suppose that $\omega \in A_{\infty }$ and satisfies $\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}{\omega (x)}/{(1+|x|)^{np_0}}<\infty$ with $p_0=\min _{1\le i\le m}p_i,$ $T^*_{\vec {b}}$ is defined as in (1.4) and $K$ satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. Then for $\vec b=(b_1,\,b_2,\,\ldots,\,b_m),$ $b_i\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_i},\, 1\le i\le m,$
Remark 1.4 (i) It is worth noting that for some $p_i>1$, $i=1,\,2,\,\ldots,\,m$, the results of theorems 1.2 and 1.3 still hold. (ii) Moreover, theorem 1.2 extends the result in [Reference He and Liang12] for $p_i=1$ to the cases for certain $0< p_i<1(i=1,\,\ldots,\,m)$. (iii) For the general different $\omega _i\in A_\infty$ with $\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}{\omega (x)}/{(1+|x|)^{np_i}}{\rm d}x<\infty$, $1\le i\le m$, our method doesn't work. It would be interesting to know whether $[\vec b,\,T]$ or $T_{\vec b}^*$ with $b_i\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega _i,p_i}$ ($1\le i\le m$) are bounded from $H^{p_1}(\omega _1)\times \cdots \times H^{p_m}(\omega _m)$ to $L^{p}(\nu _{\vec \omega })$ for the different Muckenhoupt weights $\omega _i$, $1\le i\le m$, with $\nu _{\vec \omega }=\prod _{i=1}^m \omega _i^{p/p_i}$.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We will recall some definitions and known results about Muckenhoupt weights, $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}$ spaces and weighted Hardy spaces in $\S$ 2. The proof of theorem 1.2 will be given in $\S$ 3. Finally, we will prove theorem 1.3 in $\S$ 4. We remark that some ideas in our arguments are taken from [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4, Reference Huy and Ky13, Reference Liang, Ky and Yang19, Reference Wen, Wu and Xue21], in which the multilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators and the linear commutators of Calderón–Zygmund operators were dealt with.
Finally, we make some conventions on notation. Throughout the whole paper, we denote by $C$ a positive constant which is independent of the main parameters, but it may vary from line to line. We denote $f\lesssim g$, $f\approx g$ if $f\leq Cg$ and $f\lesssim g \lesssim f$ respectively. For $1\leq p\leq \infty,$ $p'$ is the conjugate index of $p$, and $1/p+1/p'=1$. $E^c=\mathbb {R}^n\backslash E$ is the complementary set of any measurable subset $E$ of $\mathbb {R}^n$. Any cube $\tilde{Q}$ is denoted as $\tilde Q:=8\sqrt {n}Q,$ where the cube is with the same centre and $8$ times the side length of $Q$.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we recall some auxiliary facts and lemmas, which will be used in our arguments.
2.1 Muckenhoupt weights
A non-negative measurable function $\omega$ is said to be in the Muckenhoupt class $A_p$ with $1< p<\infty$, if there exists a constant $C>0$ such that
for all cubes $Q\subset \mathbb {R}^n$, where $1/p+1/{p'}=1.$ And we denote $[w]_{A_p}:=\sup _{Q}[\omega ]_{A_p,Q}$. When $p=1$, a non-negative measurable function $\omega$ is said to belong $A_1$ if
for all cubes $Q\subset \mathbb {R}^n$. We denote $A_\infty :=\cup _{p\ge 1}A_p$ and by $q_\omega :=\inf \{q>1:\omega \in A_q\}$ for $\omega \in A_\infty$. It is well known that if $\omega \in A_p$ for $1< p<\infty,$ then $\omega \in A_r$ for all $r>p$ and $\omega \in A_q$ for some $1\leq q< p.$ Then we give some important results about $A_p$ weight that will be used later on.
Lemma 2.1 [Reference García-Cuerva and Rubio de Francia7]
Let $\omega \in A_p,\,~p\geq 1$. Then, for any cube $Q$ and $\lambda >1,$
Lemma 2.2 [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4]
Let $\omega \in A_\infty,$ $0< p<\infty$ and $\max \{1,\,p\}< q<\infty$. Then for any collection of cubes $\{Q_k\}_{k=1}^\infty$ in $\mathbb {R}^n$ and non-negative integrable functions $\{f_k\}_{k=1}^\infty$ with $\operatorname {supp}{f_k}\subset Q_k,$ we have
2.2 ${\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}}$ spaces and basic facts
This subsection is concerning with the definition of ${\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}}$ and its basic properties.
Definition of ${\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}}$. Let $p\in (0,\,\infty )$, $\omega \in A_\infty$ and satisfy $\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}{\omega (x)}/{(1+|x|)^{np}}{\rm d}x<\infty$. A locally integrable function $b$ is said to be in $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}$ if
where the supremum is taken over all cubes $Q:=Q(x_0,\,l)\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ with $x_0\in \mathbb {R}^n$ and $l\in (0,\,\infty )$. Here and hereafter,
A locally integrable function $b$ is said to be in $\mathrm {BMO}$ if
where the supremum is taken over all cubes $Q\subset \mathbb {R}^n.$
Basic facts ([Reference Huy and Ky13, Reference Liang, Ky and Yang19]). (i) $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}\subset {\rm BMO}$, which is a proper inclusion.
(ii) Let $0< p\leq 1$, $\omega \in A_\infty$ such that $\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}{\omega (x)}/{(1+|x|)^{np}}{\rm d}x<\infty$. Any Lipschitz function $b$ with compact support belongs to $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p}$.
Lemma 2.3 [Reference Liang, Ky and Yang19]
Let $\omega \in A_{\infty }$ and $q\in [1,\,\infty ).$ Then for $b\in {\rm BMO}$ and any cube $Q:=Q(x_0,\,l)\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ with some $x_0\in \mathbb {R}^n$ and $l\in (0,\,\infty ),$
2.3 Weighted Hardy spaces
Let $\mathscr {S}$ be the Schwartz class of smooth functions. For a large integer $N_0$, denote
Given $\omega \in A_\infty$ and $0< p<\infty$, the weighted Hardy spaces $H^p(\omega )$ is defined by
with the quasi-norm
where $\mathcal {M}_{N_0}(f)$ is given by
Given an integer $N\geq 0$, we say that a function $a$ is an $(H^p(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atom if
For $\omega \in A_\infty$ and $0< p<\infty$, denote $S_\omega :=\lfloor n(q_\omega /p-1)\rfloor _+$. Let $N\geq S_\omega$, we define
Then $\mathcal {O}_N$ is dense in $H^p(\omega )$ (see [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen4, Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen5]).
In addition, we have the following finite atomic decomposition which was given in [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen5].
Lemma 2.4 [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Moen and Nguyen5]
Given $0< p<\infty$ and $\omega \in A_\infty,$ $S_\omega :=\lfloor n(q_\omega /p-1)\rfloor _+,$ fix $N\geq S_\omega$. Then if $f\in \mathcal {O}_N,$ there exists a finite sequence $\{a_k\}_{k=1}^{M}$ of $(H^p(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atoms with supports $Q_k,$ and a non-negative sequence $\{\lambda _i\}_{i=1}^{M}$ such that $f=\sum _{k =1}^M\lambda _k a_k$ and
3. The proof of theorem 1.2
This section is devoted to proving theorem 1.2. First, we need to prove a weighted norm inequality for $[\vec b,\,T].$ To do so, we will make use of some recent developments in the theory of Harmonic analysis on the domination of multilinear operators by sparse operators. Next, we sketch the basic definitions.
A collection of cubes $\mathcal {S}$ is called a sparse family if each cube $Q\in \mathcal {S}$ contains measurable subset $E_Q\subset Q$ such that $|E_Q|\geq 1/2|Q|$ and the family $\{E_Q\}_{Q\in \mathcal {S}}$ is pairwise disjoint. Given a sparse family $\mathcal {S}$, the sparse operator $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b}$ defined with a locally integrable function $b$ by Lerner et al. in [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi and Rivera-Ríos16],
Let $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b}^\star$ denote the adjoint operator to $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b}:$
Proposition 3.1 [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi and Rivera-Ríos16]
Let $1< p<\infty$ and $\omega \in A_p$, then for $b\in {\rm BMO}$, given any sparse linear operators $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b}(f)$ and $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b}^\star (f)$ have
and
In a similar way, for $b_l\in L_{loc}^1$, $l=1,\,\ldots,\,m$, given a sparse family $\mathcal {S}$ we define the multilinear sparse operator:
Let $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b_l}^\star$ denote the adjoint operator to $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S}, b_l}$:
The following pointwise sparse domination for the multilinear commutators of Calderón–Zygmund operators was proved by Kunwar and Ou [Reference Kunwar and Ou14]:
Proposition 3.2 [Reference Kunwar and Ou14]
Let $T$ be an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator with $K$ satisfying (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. Given locally integral functions $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$ on $\mathbb {R}^n$. Then for any bounded functions $\vec f=(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)$ with compact support, there exists $3^n$ sparse families $\mathcal {S}_j$ such that
Next, we prove the following weighted estimate for $[\vec b,\,T]$.
Lemma 3.3 Let $T$ be an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator with $K$ that satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. Fix $\omega \in A_p$, $1< p<\infty$. Given functions $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$ which $b_i\in {\rm BMO}$, $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$. Then for any bounded functions $\vec f=(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)$ with compact support, we have
Proof. By linearity it is enough to consider the operator with only one symbol. For $1\leq k\leq m$, fix $b_k\in {\rm BMO}$ and consider the operator $[b_k,\,T](f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)(x)$. By proposition 3.2, it suffices to prove this estimate for any multilinear sparse operators $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b_k}$, $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b_k}^\star$ and non-negative functions $f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m$. By the definition of the sparse operator, we have
Then, by proposition 3.1, we obtain
Next, we estimate $\mathcal {T}_{\mathcal {S},b_k}^\star$ in two different cases:
Case 1: $k= l$,
Then, by proposition 3.1, we have that
Case 2: $k\neq l$,
Recall the well-known bound for the sparse operator $\mathcal {T}_S$ (see [Reference Cruz-Uribe, Martell and Pérez3]):
Thus, we have
which completes the proof of lemma 3.3.
We also need the following lemma:
Lemma 3.4 [Reference Li, Xue and Yabuta17]
Let $T$ be an $m$-linear Calderón–Zygmund operator with $K$ that satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. Let $0< p_i\leq 1,$ $a_i$ be an $(H^{p_i}(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atom supported in $Q_k$, and $c_i$ be the centre of $Q_{i},$ $l_i$ be the side length of $Q_i,$ $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$. Assume $\tilde Q_1\cap \cdots \cap \tilde Q_m\neq \emptyset$. Then for any $x\in (\tilde Q_1\cap \cdots \cap \tilde Q_m)^c,$ we have
Now, we are in the position to prove theorem 1.2.
Proof of theorem 1.2. Proof of theorem 1.2
By linearity, it is enough to consider the operator with only one symbol. For $1\leq l\leq m$, fix then $b_l\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_l}$ and consider the operator $[b_l,\,T](f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)(x)$. By lemma 2.4, we will work with finite sums of weighted Hardy atoms and obtain estimates independent of the number of terms in each sum. We write $f_i$ as a finite sum of atoms,
where $\lambda _{i,k_i}\geq 0$ and $a_{i,k_i}$ are $(H^{p_i}(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atoms. They are supported in cubes $Q_{i,k_i}$, $\|a_{i,k_i}\|_{L^\infty }\leq (\omega (Q_{i,k_i}))^{-1/p_i}$, $\int _{Q_{i,k_i}} x^\beta a_{i,k_i}(x){\rm d}x=0$ for all $|\beta |\leq N,$ and
Denote the centre of $Q_{i,k_i}$ by $c_{i,k_i}$ and the side length of $Q_{i,k_i}$ by $l_{i,k_i}$. Using multilinearity we write
Then, we decompose $[b_l,\,T](f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)(x)$ into two parts, for $x\in \mathbb {R}^n$
where
Now, let us begin to discuss $\|I_1\|_{L^p(\omega )}$. For fixed $k_1,\,\ldots,\,k_m$, assume that
since otherwise there is nothing needed to be proved. Suppose that $\omega (\tilde Q_{1,k_1})$ has the smallest value among $\omega (\tilde Q_{i,k_i}),\,~i=1,\,2,\,\ldots,\,m$. For $q\in (q_\omega,\,\infty )$, by lemma 3.3, we have
By lemma 2.2 and Hölder's inequality, we obtain
Thus,
Next, we estimate $\|I_2\|_{L^p(\omega )}$, we split it again
For $\|I_{21}\|_{L^p(\omega )}$, using the Hölder inequality and lemma 3.4, we get
For $J_2$, by (1.2) and lemma 2.1, we have
For $J_1$, by (1.2) and lemmas 2.1 and 2.3, we obtain
Thus,
To estimate $\|I_{22}\|_{L^p(\omega )}$, we write
By the boundedness of $T$ from $H^{p_1}(\omega )\times \cdots \times H^{p_m}(\omega )$ to $L^p(\omega )$, we only need to show
that is,
We write
For $L_1$, by Hölder's inequality for $t/p_l$ $(q_{\omega }< t<\infty )$, lemma 2.3 and the boundedness of $\mathcal {M}_N$ on $L^t(\omega )$, we obtain
For ${L_2}$, note that for $x\in (2Q_{l,k_l})^c$ and $y\in Q_{l,k_l}$, $|x-y|\approx |x-c_{l,k_l}|$. Then, for $\phi \in \mathfrak {S}_N$, $t>0$, we have
This, together with the definition of $\mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_l},$ deduces that
Summing up the estimates of ${L_1}$ and $L_2$, we obtain
Combining the estimates in both cases, there is
which completes the proof of theorem 1.2.
4. The proof of theorem 1.3
Before proving theorem 1.3, we need to prove a weighted norm inequality for $T_{\vec b}^*$. We first recall some definitions and results. Given $\vec f=(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m),$ we define the multilinear maximal operator $\mathcal {M}$ by
where the supremum is taken over all cubes $Q$ containing $x$.
For $\rho >0$, let $M_\rho$ be the maximal function
Also, let $M^\sharp$ be the sharp maximal function of Fefferman-Stein [Reference Fefferman and Stein6],
and
The maximal function $\mathcal {M}_{L(\log L)}(\vec f)(x)$ is defined by
and $\mathcal {M}_{L(\log L)}(\vec f)$ is pointwise controlled by a multiple of $\prod _{j=1}^m M^2(f_j)(x)$.
We will use the following form of classical result of Fefferman and Stein [Reference Fefferman and Stein6]. Let $0< p,\,\rho <\infty$ and $\omega \in A_\infty.$ Then
for all functions $f$ for which the left-hand side is finite.
Lemma 4.1 Let $T^*_{\vec {b}}$ be defined as in (1.4) and $K$ satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. Fix $\omega \in A_p,$ $1< p<\infty$. Given functions $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)$ which $b_i\in {\rm BMO},$ $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$. Then for any bounded functions $\vec f=(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)$ with compact support, we have
Proof. By sublinearity, it is enough to consider the operator with only one symbol. For $1\leq i\leq m$, fix $b_i\in {\rm BMO}$ and consider the operator $T_{b_i}^*(\vec f)(x)$. Let $0<\delta <\varepsilon$ with $0<\delta <1/m$, Xue [Reference Xue22] proved:
and
Taking $0<\delta <\varepsilon <1/m$, using (4.1) and (4.2) and the Fefferman–Stein inequality, we have
To apply the Fefferman–Stein inequality in the above computations, we need to check that $\|M_\delta (T_{b_i}^*)(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ and $\|M_\varepsilon ( T^*(\vec f))\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ are finite. Note that $\omega \in A_p$, $\omega$ is also in $A_{p_0}$ with $pm< p_0<\infty$. So with $\varepsilon < p/p_0<1/m$ and the boundedness of Hardy–Littlewood maximal function, we have
Then it is enough to prove $\|T^*(\vec f)\|_{L^{p}(\omega )}$ is finite for each family $\vec f$ of bounded functions with compact support for which $\|\mathcal {M}_{L(\log L)}(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite. The arguments are as follows.
Without loss of generality, we assume $\operatorname {supp} f_i\subset Q(0,\,l)$ for $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$. The weight $\omega$ is also in $L_{loc}^r$ for $r$ sufficiently close to 1 such that its dual exponent $r'$ satisfies $1/m < pr'<\infty.$ Thus, it follows from Hölder's inequality and the boundedness of $T^*$
where $1/pr'=\sum _{i=1}^m 1/s_i$. For $x\in (2Q)^c$, $y_i\in Q$, we have $|x-y_i|\approx |x|$, $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$,
Fom the assumption $\|\mathcal {M}_{L(\log L)}(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite, we have
Thus, we obtain $\|M_\varepsilon ( T^*(\vec f))\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite.
Next, we show $\|M_\delta (T_{b_i}^*)(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite. It suffices to prove $\|T_{b_i}^*(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite. First, we assume $b_i$ is bounded,
Thus, following the similar arguments as (4.3), we have
On the other hand, for $x\in (2Q)^c$, note that $b$ is bounded, then similar to the arguments of (4.4), we have
From the assumption, we obtain
Thus, we proved $\|T_{b_i}^*(\vec f)\|_{L^p(\omega )}$ is finite when $b_i$ is bounded.
For general $b,$ we use the limiting argument as in [Reference Lerner, Ombrosi and Rivera-Ríos16]. Let $\{b_{i,j}\}$ be a sequence of functions such that
Note that the sequence converges pointwise to $b_i$ almost everywhere, and $\|b_{i,j}\|_{\rm BMO}\lesssim \|b_i\|_{\rm BMO}$.
Since the family $\vec f$ is bounded with compact support and $T^*$ is bounded, we have that $T_{b_{i,j}}^*(\vec f)$ convergence to $T_{b_{i}}^*(\vec f)$ in $L^p$ is for every $1< p<\infty$. It follows that for a subsequence $\{b_{i,j'}\}\subset \{b_{i,j}\}$, $T^*_{b_{i,j'}}(\vec f)$ convergence to $T^*_{b_i}(\vec f)$ is almost everywhere. Then by Fatou's lemma, we get the required estimate. Thus, we complete the proof of lemma 4.1.
Lemma 4.2 [Reference Li, Xue and Yabuta18, Reference Wen, Wu and Xue21]
Let $T^*$ be defined as in (1.3) and $K$ satisfies (1.1) with $N$ as in theorem 1.2. For $0< p_i\leq 1,$ let $a_i$ be an $(H^{p_i}(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atom supported in $Q_k$, and $c_i$ be the centre of $Q_{i}$, $l_i$ be the side length of $Q_i$, $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$. Assume $\tilde Q_1\cap \cdots \cap \tilde Q_m\neq \emptyset,$ then for any $x\in (\tilde Q_1\cap \cdots \cap \tilde Q_m)^c,$ we have
Now, we are in the position to prove theorem 1.3.
Proof of theorem 1.3. Proof of theorem 1.3
We use the same arguments as in proving theorem 1.2. By sublinearity, it is enough to consider the operator with only one symbol. For $1\leq l\leq m$, fix then $b_l\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_l}$ and consider the operator $T^*_{b_l}(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)(x)$. By lemma 2.4, we will work with finite sums of weighted Hardy atoms and obtain estimates independent of the number of terms in each sum. We write $f_i$ as a finite sum of atoms,
where $\lambda _{i,k_i}\geq 0$ and $a_{i,k_i}$ are $(H^{p_i}(\omega ),\,\infty,\,N)$-atoms. They are supported in cubes $Q_{i,k_i}$, $\|a_{i,k_i}\|_{L^\infty }\leq (\omega (Q_{i,k_i}))^{-1/p_i}$, $\int _{Q_{i,k_i}} x^\beta a_{i,k_i}(x){\rm d}x=0$ for all $|\beta |\leq N,$ and
Denote the centre of $Q_{i,k_i}$ by $c_{i,k_i}$ and the side length of $Q_{i,k_i}$ by $l_{i,k_i}$. Using multi-sublinearity, we write
Then, we decompose $T^*_{b_l}(f_1,\,\ldots,\,f_m)(x)$ into two parts, for $x\in \mathbb {R}^n$
where
By lemmas 2.2 and 4.1 and the same arguments as estimating $I_1$ in the proof of theorem 1.2, we have
Next, we estimate $\|II\|_{L^p(\omega )}$, we split it again
Using lemmas 2.3 and 4.2 and the same arguments as estimating $I_{21}$ in the proof of theorem 1.2, we can obtain
To estimate $\|II_{2}\|_{L^p(\omega )}$, for any $k_i\in \{1,\,2,\,\ldots,\,M\}$, $i=1,\,\ldots,\,m$, we only need to show
By the boundedness of $T^*$ from $H^{p_1}(\omega )\times \cdots \times H^{p_m}(\omega )$ to $L^p(\omega )$, we need to show
and
Using the same argument as (3.1), we can obtain
and
Thus,
Combining the estimates in both cases, there is
which completes the proof of theorem 1.3.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12171399, 12271041).
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