New inequalities relating the norm $n(X)$ and the numerical radius $w(X)$ of invertible bounded linear Hilbert space operators were announced by Hosseini and Omidvar [‘Some inequalities for the numerical radius for Hilbert space operators’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.94 (2016), 489–496]. For example, they asserted that $w(AB)\leq$$2w(A)w(B)$ for invertible bounded linear Hilbert space operators $A$ and $B$. We identify implicit hypotheses used in their discovery. The inequalities and their proofs can be made good by adding the extra hypotheses which take the form $n(X^{-1})=n(X)^{-1}$. We give counterexamples in the absence of such additional hypotheses. Finally, we show that these hypotheses yield even stronger conclusions, for example, $w(AB)=w(A)w(B)$.

We introduce some new refinements of numerical radius inequalities for Hilbert space invertible operators. More precisely, we prove that if $T\in {\mathcal{B}}({\mathcal{H}})$ is an invertible operator, then $\Vert T\Vert \leq \sqrt{2}\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}(T)$.

We determine the best constants ${{C}_{p,\infty }}$ and ${{C}_{1,p}},\,1\,<\,p\,<\,\infty $, for which the following holds. If $u,v$ are orthogonal harmonic functions on a Euclidean domain such that $v$ is differentially subordinate to $u$, then

$${{\left\| v \right\|}_{p}}\le {{C}_{p}}{{,}_{\infty }}{{\left\| u \right\|}_{\infty }},\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,{{\left\| v \right\|}_{1}}\le {{C}_{1,p}}{{\left\| u \right\|}_{p}}.$$

In particular, the inequalities are still sharp for the conjugate harmonic functions on the unit disc of ${{\mathbb{R}}^{2}}$. Sharp probabilistic versions of these estimates are also studied. As an application, we establish a sharp version of the classical logarithmic inequality of Zygmund.

Let 𝒳 be a space of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss. In this paper, two weighted estimates related to weights are established for singular integral operators with nonsmooth kernels via a new sharp maximal operator associated with a generalized approximation to the identity. As applications, the weighted Lp(𝒳) and weighted endpoint estimates with general weights are obtained for singular integral operators with nonsmooth kernels, their commutators with BMO (𝒳) functions, and associated maximal operators. Some applications to holomorphic functional calculi of elliptic operators and Schrödinger operators are also presented.