1. Introduction
Let
,
, be the
n-dimensional Euclidean spaces and
the unit sphere in
equipped with the normalized Lebesgue measure
. Let
be a homogeneous function of degree zero on
satisfying
and the following property
where
for any
.
The Marcinkiewicz integral operator
is defined by
where
As is well known, Marcinkiewicz integral is one of the classical operators in harmonic analysis, which belongs to the broad class of the Littlewood-Paley
g-functions and plays important roles in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. The research on the mapping properties of Marcinkiewicz integral and its commutators in various function spaces has been an active topic. In 1958, Stein [
1] first introduced the operator
, which is the higher dimensional generalization of Marcinkiewicz integral in one-dimension, and showed that
is bounded on
for
and weak type
, provided
,
. Subsequently, the boundedness of
was studied extensively, see [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8], etc. and therein references. In particular, Al-Salman et al. [
2] obtained the
-boundedness of
for
, provided that
. In addition, the boundedness of
on generalized Morrey spaces and generalized weighted Morrey spaces was also established; see [
9,
10,
11], etc.
In this paper, we will focus on the commutators
generated by
with
by
where
In 1990, Torchinsky and Wang [
8] first studied the commutators
and showed that
is bounded on
for
, provided that
,
,
. Subsequently, this result was improved and extended to the cases of rough kernels in [
12,
13,
14], etc. Chen and Ding [
15] also showed that
is necessary for the boundedness of
on
,
, under the assumption that
satisfies the following logarithm type regularity:
In addition, see [
16] for the cases of the weighted versions with rough kernels. Furthermore, Aliev and Guliyev [
9] obtained that, for
and
,
is bounded from the generalized Morrey spaces
to
with certain appropriate positive functions. The boundedness of
, for
and
, on the generalized weighted Morrey spaces, Orlicz–Morrey spaces and the mixed Morrey spaces were also found in [
4,
11,
17,
18], etc.
On the other hand, Arai and Nakai [
19] recently studied the commutators
of the Calderón–Zygmund operator
T on the generalized Morrey spaces and showed that, if
b is a function of generalized Campanato spaces
, which contain the
spaces and the Lipschitz spaces as special examples, then
is bounded on the generalized Morrey spaces. The corresponding result for the commutators of general fractional integrals was also obtained.
Based on the results above, it is natural to ask the following question:
Question: What is the mapping properties of on the generalized Morrey spaces when b is a function in the generalized Campanato spaces?
The main purpose of this paper is to address this question. To state our main results, we first recall some relevant definitions and notations.
Let
be the open ball centered at
and of radius
r, that is,
For a measurable set
, we denote by
and
the Lebesgue measure of
E and the characteristic function of
E, respectively. For a function
and a ball
B, let
To introduce the generalized Morrey spaces with and variable growth function , for a ball , we denote by .
Definition 1 ([
19])
. Let be a positive measurable function on and , the generalized Morrey space is defined as the set of all functions f such thatwhere the supremum is taken over all balls B in . We know that
is a norm and
is a Banach space. If
for
, then
is the classical Morrey space, that is,
In particular, , and .
Recall that a locally integrable function
b is said to be in
if
where the supremum is taken over all balls
.
We also consider the generalized Campanato spaces with variable growth condition, which are defined as follows.
Definition 2 ([
19])
. Let be a positive measurable function on and , the generalized Campanato space is the set of all functions f such thatwhere the supremum is taken over all balls B in . It is easy to check that is a norm modulo constant functions and thereby is a Banach space. If and , then . If and , then coincides with .
We say that a function
satisfies the doubling condition if there exists a positive constant
C such that, for all
and
,
We also consider the following condition that there exists a positive constant
C such that, for all
and
,
For two functions
, we write
if there exists a positive constant
C such that, for all
and
,
Definition 3. Let be the set of all functions such that φ is almost decreasing and that is almost increasing. That is, there exists a positive constant C such that, for all and , Let be the set of all functions such that φ is almost increasing and that is almost decreasing. That is, there exists a positive constant C such that, for all and , If
or
, then
satisfies the doubling condition (
3).
It follows from [
19] that, for
, if
satisfies
then there exists
such that
and that
is continuous, strictly decreasing and bijective from
to itself for each
x.
For
,
, we define
on each ball
B by
Here, and in what follows,
denotes the complementary set of any measurable subset
E of
. Then,
Note that
is well defined since
, and it easy to check that
which converges absolutely. Moreover,
defined in (
7) is independent of the choice of the ball containing
x. Furthermore, we can show that
is bounded on
. See Proposition 1 for the details.
For
,
, we define
on each ball
B by
Now, we can formulate our main result as follows.
Theorem 1. Let and . Assume that satisfies (4), satisfies (6) and for all and ,and If , then in (8) is well defined for all , and there exists a positive constant C, independent of b and f, such that Remark 1. For , Chen and Ding [15] showed that, if is bounded on for , then , under the assumption of that Ω satisfies the logarithm type regularity condition (2). It is not clear that, for , under the same assumptions of Theorem 1, if is bounded from to , then . This is an interesting open problem. Moreover, it is also interesting whether or not the corresponding conclusions are still true if the regularity of Ω is weakened or removed. In addition, for , it is also worth exploring the mapping properties of on the generalized weighted Morrey spaces, the general Orlicz–Morrey spaces, etc. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: In
Section 2, we will recall and establish some auxiliary lemmas.
Section 3 will establish the pointwise estimate for the sharp maximal operator of
, and the proof of Theorem 1 will be given in
Section 4.
Finally, we make some conventions on notation. Throughout this paper, we always use C to denote a positive constant that is independent of the main parameters involved but whose value may differ from line to line. Constants with subscripts, such as , are dependent on the subscripts. We denote if , and if . For is the conjugate index of p, and .
2. Preliminaries
For a function
, the generalized Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator is defined by
Clearly, if
, then
is the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator
M, and if
, then
is the fraction maximal operator
defined by
For the generalized Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator , we have the following lemma:
Lemma 1 ([
19])
. Let and . Assume that φ is in and satisfies (6). Assume also that there exists a positive constant , such that, for all and ,Then, is bounded from to .
Next, we recall John–Nirenberg inequality. Let
, and there are constants
, such that for all
,
which yields that
The following lemma is a corollary of the John–Nirenberg inequality.
Lemma 2 ([
19])
. Let and . Assume that ψ satisfies (4). Then, with equivalent norms. Lemma 3 ([
19])
. Let and . Assume that ψ satisfies (4). Then, there exists a positive constant C dependent only on and ψ such that, for all and for all and ,and Lemma 4 ([
19])
. Let φ satisfy the doubling condition (3) and (9), that is,Then, for all , there exists a positive constant such that, for all and , Proposition 1. Let , and satisfy (9). Suppose that . Then, defined in (7) is bounded on . That is, there exists a positive constant C such that, for all , Proof. For
, we take any ball
. Set
. Then, we have
By the boundedness of
on
and the doubling condition of
, we have
Hence,
For
, note that, if
and
, then
. By the generalized Minkowski inequality and the doubling condition of
, we have
which leads to
and completes the proof of Proposition 1. □
Lemma 5. Under the assumption of Theorem 1, there exists a positive constant C such that, for all , all and all balls , Proof. Note that
and
, and we have
. By Hölder’s inequality and the doubling condition of
, we obtain
Therefore, invoking Lemma 4 and (
10) implies that
Similarly, by Hölder’s inequality, Lemma 3 together with the doubling condition of
and
, (
2) and (
10), we have
which immediately includes that
This leads to the desired conclusion and completes the proof of Lemma 5. □
Remark 2. Under the assumptions in Theorem 1, let and . Then, in (8) is well defined. Indeed, it is obvious that and for all by Lemma 2. Hence, and are well defined for any ball . That is, is well defined for any ball .
On the other hand, it follows from the proof of Lemma 5 that
is well defined for any ball
. In addition, by Minkowski’s inequality, we have
Moreover, if
, then, taking
such that
, we have
which implies that
This shows that
in (
8) is independent of the choice of the ball
B containing
x.