Fractional Operators with Homogeneous Kernels in Two Weighted Herz Spaces with Variable Exponents ()
1. Introduction
In order to better study the solutions of the Poisson equation
in partial differential equations, Sobolev [1] showed that the fractional integral operator is bounded from the classical Lebesgue space
to
. After that, Harboure and Salinas [2] provided necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of fractional integral operators and their commutators on
. Capone, Cruz-Uribe and Fiorenza [3] have proved the boundedness on
, provided that the exponents satisfy the log-Hölder continuous conditions. Bernardis, Dalmasso and Pradolini [4] proved the boundedness of fractional integral operators and their commutators on
. Cruz-Uribe and Wang [5] have also obtained the boundedness of fractional integrals on weighted Lebesgue spaces with variable exponent by applying the extrapolation theorem. We recall the so-called fractional integral operators.
Let
, with
, be the unit sphere in
with the normalized Lebesgue measure
. Assuming that
, with
, the fractional integral operator with homogeneous kernel
is defined by
where
.
If
, the integral returns the well-known Cauchy principal value.
If
,
is the fractional integral operator (Riesz potential operator)
If
and Ω satisfy the vanishing condition on
:
s
then
becomes a Calderon-Zygmund operator.
If
, set
where
and the supremum is taken over all
, and what follows
is the Lebesgue measure of measurable set
in
. A function
is called bounded mean oscillation if
. Denote by
the set of all bounded mean oscillation functions on
.
Let
, the commutator of fractional integral operator
is defined by
Variable exponent function spaces play a vital role in fluid dynamics, elasticity dynamics, and differential equations with nonstandard growth. Since Kováčik and Rákosník developed the theory of variable exponent function spaces in [6], the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces
have been extensively investigated, see [7]-[9]. A class of function spaces called Herz spaces has played an important role in real analysis because the interesting norm includes explicitly both local and global information of the function. Izuki introduced the variable exponent Herz spaces in [10] [11] and considered the boundedness of commutators of fractional integrals [12]. In [13], Izuki has proved the boundedness of commutators with fractional integrals on Herz spaces with variable exponent. In 2016, Izuki and Noi [14] defined weighted Herz spaces with variable exponent and proved the boundedness of fractional integrals on those spaces under proper assumptions on weights and exponents.
Recently, Izuki and Noi introduced two weight Herz spaces with variable exponents in [15]. Motivated by the mentioned works, we will consider the boundedness of the fractional operator with homogeneous kernels on two weight Herz spaces with variable exponents. Compared with reference [15], this paper introduces the two weight settings in the variable exponent Herz space for the first time. Although [15] established the theoretical framework of the two weight variable exponent Herz space, it did not involve the fractional integral operator. Compared with reference [16], this paper extends its single weight results to a more general and challenging two weight case, while retaining the homogeneity assumption of the kernel function. In terms of the proof method, it combines the fine characterization of variable exponent Muckenhoupt weight classes with the ring decomposition technique.
In this paper we use the following symbols and notations:
1) For any measurable set
denotes the Lebesgue measure and
means the characteristic function.
2) A locally integrable and positive function defined on
is said to be a weight. We write
for a weight
and a measurable set
.
3) Given
, we write
.
4) Give
, we define
,
,
.
5) For any quantities A and B, if there exists a constant
such that
, we write
. If
and
, we write
.
2. Variable Lebesgue Spaces
We introduce Lebesgue spaces with variable exponent. Let
be a measurable function on
taking values in
, the Lebesgue space with variable exponent
is defined by
Then
is a Banach function space equipped with the norm
Denote by
the set of all measurable functions
such that
and
consists of all
satisfying
and
.
Definition 2.1 ([9]) Let
be a real-valued function on
.
(i) For any
,
, if
then
is said local log-Hölder continuous on
.
(ii) For all
, if
then
is said log-Hölder continuous functions at origin and denote by
.
(iii) For some real number
, for
, if
then
is said log-Hölder continuous at infinity and denote by
.
(iv) The function
satisfying (ii) and (iii) is denoted by
. It is also well known that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator
, defined by
is bounded on
whenever
[17].
Now we define the Muckenhoupt classes. We begin with the classical Muckenhoupt
weight.
Definition 2.2 ([18]) Let
be a weighted function on
, that is,
is real-valued, non-negative and locally integrable.
is said to be a Muckenhoupt
weight if
For
, we say that
is an
weight if
Definition 2.3 ([19]) Let
. For some constant
, a weight
is said to be an
weight, if for all balls
in
such that
Diening and Hästä [20], have proved the next monotone property.
Lemma 2.1 ([20]) If
and
, then we have
In order to state the boundedness of fractional integrals on weighted function spaces we shall define the class
as follows.
Definition 2.4 Let
and
such that
. A weight
is said to be an
weight if
holds for all balls
.
Lemma 2.2 ([5]) Let
and
such that
. Then
if and only if
.
Definition 2.5 Let
and
. The weight variable exponent Lebesgue space
denotes the set of all complex-valued measurable functions f satisfying
This is a Banach space equipped with the norm:
Lemma 2.3 ([16]) Let
and
. Define
by
. If
, then
is bounded from
to
.
3. Two Weighted Herz Spaces with Variable Exponents
Let
be a non-negative measurable function and let
be a sequence of functions. The modulus is defined by
where
. If
or
, the above can be written as
The norm is
Definition 3.1 ([15]) Let
and
.
The homogeneous two weight Herz space
and non-homogeneous two weight Herz space
are defined respectively by
and
where
and
Regarding function spaces, we have the following Lemma:
Lemma 3.1 ([15]) If
and
,
for some
then for all
and
,
Lemma 3.2 ([15]) Let
for some
and
. If
, then
Additionally, if
, then
Lemma 3.3 ([15]) Let
,
, where
and
.
,
If
and
, then for any
and
, we have
where the implicit constants are independent of
and
.
Lemma 3.4 ([21]) Let
be a Banach function space. Suppose that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator
is weakly bounded on
, that is,
is true for all
and all
. Then we have
The weighted Banach function space
is a Banach function space equipped
The associate space of
is a Banach function space and equals
. The properties above naturally arise from those of the usual Banach function spaces and the proof is found in [22].
If we take
and
, then we have
. If we take
and
, then we have
.
Thus we have:
Lemma 3.5 ([15]) If
and
, then there exist constants
, such that for all balls
in
and all measurable subsets
,
Lemma 3.6 ([23]) Let
. Then there is a positive constant
such that
for non-negative sequences
.
4. The Main Results
Theorem 4.1 Let
,
,
,
and
,
for some
,
and
.
,
and
. Define
by
. Then the fractional integral operator
is a bounded operator from
to
for all
.
Proof of Theorem 4.1 Let
. Then, by the Jensen inequality, we have
Let
for any
. Then
. So we have By Lemma 3.3, we decompose
into the following three parts as
It is easy to see that
where
We estimate
. Note that if
, and
, then
. By generalized Hölder inequality, we obtain
By virtue of the generalized Hölder’s inequality, we have
Then, for any
, we have the following inequality
By taking the
-norm and using Lemma 3.4, we have
By Lemma 3.5, we see that
By the obvious inequality
and the boundedness of
, we have
By using Lemma 3.5 again, we obtain
Thus we obtain
Thus we get
By using Lemma 3.3 we obtain
where in the last inequality we use the fact that the sets
Note that
. We consider the two cases
and
. If
, then by using the Hölder’s inequality and Lemma 3.5, we obtain
If
, then by using the Jensen’s inequality and Lemma 3.6, we obtain
Next we estimate
. By using the same argument as above, we see that
By using Lemma 3.6 and note
, we obtain
By using the same argument as
, we have
Therefore, we have
.
We estimate
. Note that if
, and
, then
. Using the generalized Hölder inequality, we have,
By virtue of the generalized Hölder’s inequality, we have
Then, for any
, we have the following inequality
By taking the
-norm, we have
By Lemma 3.5, we see that
By the definition 2.4 and using Lemma 3.4, we obtain
Hence we have
Thus we get
Therefore we see that
Note that
. We consider the two cases:
and
.
If
, then by using the Hölder inequality and Lemma 3.6, we obtain
If
, then by using the Jensen’s inequality and Lemma 3.6, we obtain
Next we estimate
. By using the same argument as above, we see that
Last we estimate
. It is easy to see that
By above equation.
Now we estimate
. By using the same argument as above, we see that
Now, by putting the estimated values of
and
together, we can obtain
This completes the proof of the boundedness of the fractional integral operator on the two weighted Herz spaces with variable exponents.
Acknowledgements
We sincerely thank the referees for their reading and evaluation.
Funding
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12361018), Key Laboratory of Computational Science and Application of Hainan Province (Grant No.JSKX202304) and Gansu Province Outstanding Youth Fund project (Grant No. 24JRRA121).