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Corollary 11.108. Let \( X \) be a thick Euclidean building of rank at least 3. Assume that \( {X}_{\infty } \) is Moufang and that there exists a twin building \( \left( {{X}_{ + },{X}_{ - }}\right) \) with \( X = {X}_{ + } \) . Then \( {\operatorname{lk}}_{X}\left( v\right) \) is Moufang for any special vertex \( v \...
Proof. By Proposition 11.107, \( {L}_{v} \mathrel{\text{:=}} {\operatorname{lk}}_{X}\left( v\right) \) can be embedded in \( {X}_{\infty } \) as a subbuilding for any special vertex \( v \) of \( X \) . So the corollary follows immediately from Proposition 7.37.
No
Proposition 11.110. Suppose that the Euclidean building \( X \) is Moufang of rank at least 3 with root group system \( \left( {U}_{\alpha }\right) \), where \( \alpha \) ranges over the roots of E. Suppose further that the spherical building \( {X}_{\infty } \) is Moufang. Then for any root \( \alpha \) of \( E,{U}_{\...
Proof of Proposition 11.110. As we mentioned earlier, the assumption that \( X \) is Moufang implies that \( X \) is part of a Moufang twin building \( \left( {X,{X}_{ - }}\right) \) . Given \( \alpha \), we first choose a panel \( P \in \partial \alpha \) that contains a special vertex \( v \) . It is easy to see that...
No
Lemma 12.9. Given \( x \in X \) of type \( \tau \left( x\right) = z \), the star of \( x \) contains the open ball \( \{ y \in X \mid d\left( {x, y}\right) < \epsilon \left( z\right) \} \) of radius \( \epsilon \left( z\right) \) centered at \( x \) .
Proof. We must show that \( y \notin \operatorname{st}x \Rightarrow d\left( {x, y}\right) \geq \epsilon \left( z\right) \) . Suppose \( y \notin \operatorname{st}x \) , and consider a chain from \( x \) to \( y \) represented as in (12.2). Assume, as we may, that \( {x}_{0},{x}_{1},{x}_{2} \) do not lie in a single \( ...
Yes
Corollary 12.11. Suppose \( \Delta \) consists of a single apartment \( \sum = \sum \left( {W, S}\right) \) as in Example 12.2(b). Then \( W \) acts on \( X = Z\left( {W, S}\right) \) by isometries, and the identification of the fundamental domain with \( Z \) is compatible with the original metric on \( Z \) .
Proof. The first assertion is immediate from the definitions, and the second follows from part (2) of the proposition.
No
Proposition 12.13. Under the hypotheses (1)-(4), the map \( \phi : Z\left( {W, S}\right) \rightarrow X \) is an isometry.
Proof. We claim that every geodesic segment \( \left\lbrack {x, y}\right\rbrack \) in \( X \) can be subdivided so that each piece is contained in a closed chamber. Accepting this for the moment, we obtain a chain from \( x \) to \( y \) of length \( d\left( {x, y}\right) \), whence \( {d}^{\prime }\left( {x, y}\right)...
Yes
Proposition 12.16. Given a type-preserving chamber map \( \phi : \Delta \rightarrow {\Delta }^{\prime } \), the induced map \( \phi : X \rightarrow {X}^{\prime } \) is distance-decreasing, i.e.,
\[ d\left( {\phi \left( x\right) ,\phi \left( y\right) }\right) \leq d\left( {x, y}\right) \] for all \( x, y \in X \) .
Yes
Corollary 12.17. Let \( \Delta \) be a building and \( \sum \) an apartment in \( \Delta \), viewed as a building in its own right. Then the inclusion \( \sum \hookrightarrow \Delta \) induces an isometric embedding of \( Z\left( \sum \right) \) into \( Z\left( \Delta \right) \) .
Proof. If \( \iota : \sum \hookrightarrow \Delta \) is the inclusion and \( \rho : \Delta \rightarrow \sum \) is a retraction, then the induced maps on \( Z \) -realizations are distance-decreasing. Since \( {\rho \iota } = {\operatorname{id}}_{\sum } \), it follows that no distances can be strictly decreased by \( \io...
Yes
Proposition 12.18. Let \( \rho = {\rho }_{\sum, C} \), where \( \sum \) is an apartment and \( C \) is a chamber of \( \sum \) . Then\n\n\[ d\left( {\rho \left( x\right) ,\rho \left( y\right) }\right) \leq d\left( {x, y}\right) \]\n\nfor all \( x, y \in X \), with equality if \( x \in Z\left( C\right) \) .
Proof. We need only prove the assertion about equality. Choose a chamber \( D \) with \( y \in Z\left( D\right) \), and let \( {\sum }^{\prime } \) be an apartment containing \( C \) and \( D \) . Recall that the restriction of \( \rho \) to \( {\sum }^{\prime } \) is given by a type-preserving isomorphism \( \phi : {\...
Yes
Proposition 12.20. Two points of \( X \) with the same carrier and the same type are equal.
Proof. Let \( z \) be the common type of the two points, and write them as \( \left\lbrack {C, z}\right\rbrack \) and \( \left\lbrack {D, z}\right\rbrack \) . By hypothesis, the chambers \( C \) and \( D \) have the same face of cotype \( {S}_{z} \) and hence are in the same \( {S}_{z} \) -residue. But then \( \left\lb...
Yes
Proposition 12.21. If \( x \in X \) has carrier \( A \in \Delta \), then \( \phi \left( x\right) \) has carrier \( \phi \left( A\right) \) .
Proof. Write \( x = \left\lbrack {C, z}\right\rbrack \), so that \( A \) is the face of \( C \) of cotype \( {S}_{z} \) . Then \( \phi \left( x\right) = \) \( \left\lbrack {\phi \left( C\right), z}\right\rbrack \), so the carrier of \( \phi \left( x\right) \) is the face of \( \phi \left( C\right) \) of cotype \( {S}_{...
Yes
Corollary 12.22. Let \( {\phi }_{1},{\phi }_{2} : \Delta \rightarrow {\Delta }^{\prime } \) be type-preserving chamber maps between buildings of type \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) . Let \( x \in X \) have carrier \( A \in \Delta \) . Then \( {\phi }_{1}\left( x\right) = {\phi }_{2}\left( x\right) \) if and only if \( {\ph...
Proof. The second assertion follows from the first, applied with one map equal to the identity. The first assertion is an immediate consequence of Propositions 12.20 and 12.21.
No
Corollary 12.26. Given \( x, y \in X \), there is a finite collection \( \mathcal{G} \) of galleries such that\n\n\[ d\left( {x, y}\right) = \mathop{\inf }\limits_{\gamma }l\left( \gamma \right) \]\n\nwhere \( \gamma \) ranges over the chains from \( x \) to \( y \) that can be represented as in (12.6) with the associa...
Proof. We may assume that \( \Delta = \sum \left( {W, S}\right) \) . Let \( A \) and \( B \) be the carriers of \( x \) and \( y \) as in the proposition. Then we can compute \( d\left( {x, y}\right) \) using only chains whose galleries are minimal from \( A \) to \( B \) . Recall now that there are only finitely many ...
Yes
Theorem 12.27. Suppose that \( {Z}_{s} \) is a proper metric space for each \( s \in S \) . Then for any \( x, y \in X \), there is a chain from \( x \) to \( y \) of length \( d\left( {x, y}\right) \) .
Proof. In view of Corollary 12.26, it suffices to show that among the chains \( \gamma \) representable as in (12.6) with a given associated gallery \( \Gamma \), there is one of minimal length. Now the length of \( \gamma \) is given by\n\n\[ l\left( \gamma \right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{i = 1}}^{m}{d}_{Z}\left( {{...
Yes
Corollary 12.28. If \( Z \) is a geodesic metric space and each \( {Z}_{s} \) is a proper metric space, then \( X = Z\left( \Delta \right) \) is a geodesic metric space.
Proof. Given \( x, y \in X \), choose a chain \( x = {x}_{0},{x}_{1},\ldots ,{x}_{m} = y \) of length \( d\left( {x, y}\right) \) . Then there are geodesics \( \left\lbrack {{x}_{i - 1},{x}_{i}}\right\rbrack \) for each \( i = 1,\ldots, m \), and we can concatenate these to obtain a geodesic \( \left\lbrack {x, y}\righ...
No
Proposition 12.29. Suppose that \( Z\left( {W, S}\right) \) is a \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( \kappa \right) \) space for some real number \( \kappa \) . Then the \( Z \) -realization of any building \( \Delta \) of type \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) is a \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( \kappa \right) \) space.
The proof is essentially the same as the proof that Euclidean buildings are CAT(0) spaces (Theorem 11.16), once we establish some basic properties of the \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( \kappa \right) \) property for \( \kappa \neq 0 \) . Note that we can scale the metric to reduce to the cases \( \kappa = \pm 1 \), so we ...
Yes
Lemma 12.30. Let \( X \) be the 2-sphere \( {S}^{2} \) or the hyperbolic plane \( {\mathbb{H}}^{2} \), and let \( x, y, z \) be three points in \( X \) . If \( X = {S}^{2} \), assume that \( x \) and \( y \) are not antipodal. Set \( c \mathrel{\text{:=}} d\left( {x, y}\right) \), and for \( 0 \leq t \leq 1 \), let \( ...
Proof. Assume first that \( X = {S}^{2} \), and recall (from [48, Chapter I.2], for instance) that the distance function is given by \( \cos d\left( {u, v}\right) = \langle u, v\rangle \), where the right side denotes the inner product of unit vectors in \( {\mathbb{R}}^{3} \) . Our task, then, is to compute \( \langle...
Yes
For every spherical building \( \Delta \), the ordinary geometric realization \( \left| \Delta \right| \) admits a canonical \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 1\right) \) metric, obtained as follows. Let \( \Delta \) have type \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) ; then \( W \) is finite. Let \( Z \) be a simplex with vertex set \( S ...
This gives us a metric on \( X \) such that every apartment is isometric to the standard unit sphere of dimension \( \left| S\right| - 1 \) (see Example 12.14(a)). In view of Proposition 12.29, \( X \) is a (complete) \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 1\right) \) space.
Yes
For every Euclidean building \( \Delta \), the \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 0\right) \) metric on the geometric realization \( \left| \Delta \right| \) that we discussed in detail in Chapter 11 is a special case of the construction in the present chapter.
As in the previous example, take \( Z \) to be a simplex with vertex set \( S \) . It has a canonical Euclidean metric. To show that the resulting metric on the \( Z \) -realization is the same as the metric constructed in Chapter 11, it suffices to consider the case of an apartment, since any two points are contained ...
No
Let \( \Delta \) be a building of type \( \left( {W, S}\right) \), where \( W \) is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov.
Moussong has characterized such Coxeter groups \( W \) ; see Section 12.3.9 below. Moussong has also shown that the Davis realization of an apartment admits a different metric in this case, obtained by using the same set \( Z \) but giving it a piecewise hyperbolic metric instead of a piecewise-Euclidean metric. The ne...
No
Let \( W \) be the Coxeter group of type \( {\widetilde{\mathrm{A}}}_{2} \). Its Coxeter complex \( \sum \) is the plane tiled by equilateral triangles. If we draw the chamber graph (or Cayley graph) on top of a picture of \( \sum \) as in Figure 12.9, we see the honeycomb tiling of the plane by hexagons. This yields a...
We can describe the cells of \( {\sum }_{d} \) in the following way, which will be familiar to readers who have seen dual cell decompositions of triangulated manifolds as in [129, p. 232; 179, Section 64]: For each vertex \( v \in \sum \), its link in \( \sum \) is a hexagon. Inside the barycentric subdivision of \( \s...
Yes
Let \( \sum \) be an arbitrary Coxeter complex. The link of every simplex is again a Coxeter complex; hence if it is finite, it triangulates a sphere. Intuitively, the construction that follows consists in coning off smaller copies of these spheres in the barycentric subdivision of \( \sum \) to get cells, as in Exampl...
Let \( {\sum }_{f} \) be the subposet of \( \sum \) consisting of the spherical simplices in \( \sum \) , i.e., the simplices \( A \in \sum \) whose link \( {\operatorname{lk}}_{\sum }A \) is finite. If \( \sum \) is given to us as \( \sum \left( {W, S}\right) \), then \( {\sum }_{f} \) is the set of simplices whose st...
Yes
Proposition 12.52. The underlying space \( X = \left| {\sum }_{d}\right| \) is always contractible.
Sketch of proof. As in Section 4.12, our proof will be complete except for (routine) homotopy-theoretic details. The proposition is trivial if \( \sum \) is finite, so we may assume that it is infinite and hence contractible (Theorem 4.127). Let \( {\sum }^{\prime } \) be the set of nonempty simplices. Then the flag co...
No
Theorem 12.58. For any Coxeter system \( \left( {W, S}\right) \), the space \( X = \left| {{\sum }_{d}\left( {W, S}\right) }\right| \) with its piecewise Euclidean metric is a \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 0\right) \) space.
The proof is long and we will not give it here. Moussong's original proof can be found in [170, Theorem 14.1]. See [89, Section 12.3; 90, Corollary 6.7.5; 149, Appendix B] for other proofs.
No
Corollary 12.59. If \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) is an arbitrary Coxeter system, then every finite subgroup of \( W \) is conjugate to a subgroup of a finite standard subgroup.
Proof. The point stabilizers \( {W}_{x} \) for the \( W \) -action on \( X \) are the conjugates of the finite standard subgroups. The corollary now follows from the Bruhat-Tits fixed-point theorem (Theorem 11.23).
Yes
Theorem 12.60. The following conditions on a Coxeter system \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) are equivalent:\n\n(i) \( W \) is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov.\n\n(ii) \( W \) does not contain a free abelian subgroup of rank 2.\n\n(iii) For all \( J \subseteq S \), the standard parabolic subgroup \( {W}_{J} \) has at most ...
Moussong's original proof can be found in [170, proof of Theorem 17.1]. See also [89, Section 12.6; 90, Theorem 11.1].
No
Proposition 12.63. Let \( \left( {W, S}\right) \) be an arbitrary Coxeter system. There is a cubical complex \( {\sum }_{c}\left( {W, S}\right) \) that subdivides \( {\sum }_{d}\left( {W, S}\right) \) . Its poset of cells can be identified with the set of closed intervals \( \left\lbrack {w{W}_{J}, w{W}_{K}}\right\rbra...
Sketch of proof. It is is easy to verify that the poset of finite standard cosets has a cubical realization, as defined in Section A.3. The existence of \( {\sum }_{c} \) now follows easily from Proposition A.38. (See also Remark A.39.) The remaining assertions are equally easy and are left to the interested reader. No...
No
Theorem 12.66. For any building \( \Delta \), its Davis realization \( X = Z\left( \Delta \right) \) is a complete \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 0\right) \) space.
Proof. \( X \) is a geodesic metric space by Corollary 12.28, and it is complete by Proposition 12.10. The hard part is that \( X \) is a \( \operatorname{CAT}\left( 0\right) \) space. In view of Proposition 12.29, we need only check this when \( \Delta \) consists of a single apartment, and for this we have Moussong's...
Yes
Let \( H \) be a group of type-preserving automorphisms of a building \( \Delta \) . If \( H \) stabilizes a bounded set of chambers, then \( H \) fixes a spherical simplex. Equivalently, \( H \) stabilizes a spherical residue in \( \mathcal{C}\left( \Delta \right) \) .
Proof. Since \( Z \) is compact, a bound on the combinatorial distance between two chambers \( C, D \) yields a bound on the distance in \( X \) between points of \( Z\left( C\right) \) and points of \( Z\left( D\right) \) . So \( H \) stabilizes a bounded subset of \( X \) and therefore has a fixed point \( x \) . In ...
Yes
Theorem 13.8. Let \( G \) be a simply connected and absolutely almost simple linear algebraic group defined over \( \mathbb{Q} \). Then, with the notation above, any torsion-free \( S \) -arithmetic subgroup of \( G\left( \mathbb{Q}\right) \) is finitely presented and of type FL and is a duality group of dimension \( d...
We now sketch the method actually used by Borel and Serre [42] to prove Theorem 13.8. Instead of letting the torsion-free \( S \) -arithmetic group \( \Gamma \) act on the various \( {X}_{p} \) one at a time, they let it act on them simultaneously. More precisely, let \( {L}_{p} \mathrel{\text{:=}} G\left( {\mathbb{Q}}...
Yes
Theorem 13.14. Let \( F \) be an algebraic extension of \( \mathbb{Q} \) and let \( \Gamma \) be an arbitrary finitely generated subgroup of \( {\mathrm{{GL}}}_{n}\left( F\right) \) . Then \( \operatorname{vcd}\Gamma < \infty \) .
To prove this, we may assume that \( F \) is finite over \( \mathbb{Q} \), and then we can easily reduce to the case \( F = \mathbb{Q} \) . [An \( n \) -dimensional vector space over \( F \) is a finite-dimensional vector space over \( \mathbb{Q} \) .] Then \( \Gamma \leq {\mathrm{{GL}}}_{n}\left( A\right) \) for some ...
Yes
Theorem 13.15. Let \( \Gamma \) be a finitely generated subgroup of \( {\mathrm{{GL}}}_{n}\left( F\right) \), where \( F \) is a field of characteristic 0 . Then \( \operatorname{vcd}\Gamma < \infty \) if and only if there is an upper bound on the Hirsch ranks of the unipotent subgroups of \( \Gamma \) .
Recall that any unipotent subgroup \( U \) of \( {\mathrm{{GL}}}_{n}\left( F\right) \) is torsion-free and nilpotent by Kolchin’s theorem (Section C.7). So the Hirsch rank of \( U \) is indeed defined and differs from \( \operatorname{cd}U \) by at most 1 (see Section 13.1.5). Thus \
No
Theorem 13.18. For any \( n \) there is an integer \( N \) such that \( {\mathrm{{SL}}}_{n}\left( {{\mathbb{F}}_{q}\left\lbrack t\right\rbrack }\right) \) has finiteness length \( n - 2 \) if \( q \geq N \) .
If \( n \leq 5 \), Abramenko has shown that one can take \( N = 2 \), i.e., there is no restriction on \( q \) . If \( n \geq 6 \), however, the best known value of \( N \) is \( N = \) \( \mathop{\max }\limits_{{1 \leq i \leq n - 2}}\left( \begin{matrix} n - 2 \\ i \end{matrix}\right) \), again due to Abramenko, but t...
Yes
Proposition 14.1. Suppose a group \( G \) acts on a simply connected simplicial complex \( \Delta \), and suppose \( F \subseteq \Delta \) is a simplicial fundamental domain in the sense of Definition 3.74. Then \( G \) is the sum of the vertex stabilizers \( {G}_{v} \) amalgamated along the edge stabilizers \( {G}_{e}...
This means, by definition, that \( G \) is the direct limit of the system consisting of the groups \( {G}_{v} \) and \( {G}_{e} \), together with the inclusions\n\n![85b011f4-34bf-48b4-8882-cd79e6f4beb0_663_0.jpg](images/85b011f4-34bf-48b4-8882-cd79e6f4beb0_663_0.jpg)\n\nwhenever \( e \) is an edge of \( F \) with vert...
Yes
For pedagogical reasons we compute the distribution function \( {d}_{f} \) of a nonnegative simple function\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{N}{a}_{j}{\chi }_{{E}_{j}}\left( x\right) \]\n\nwhere the sets \( {E}_{j} \) are pairwise disjoint and \( {a}_{1} > \cdots > {a}_{N} > 0 \) . If \( \alpha...
Setting\n\n\[ {B}_{j} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 1}}^{j}\mu \left( {E}_{k}\right) \]\n\nfor \( j \in \{ 1,\ldots, N\} ,{B}_{0} = {a}_{N + 1} = 0 \), and \( {a}_{0} = \infty \), we have\n\n\[ {d}_{f}\left( \mathbf{\alpha }\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 0}}^{N}{B}_{j}{\chi }_{\left\lbrack {a}_{j + 1},{a}_{j}\ri...
Yes
Proposition 1.1.3. Let \( f \) and \( g \) be measurable functions on \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) . Then for all \( \alpha ,\beta > 0 \) we have\n\n(1) \( \left| g\right| \leq \left| f\right| \mu \) -a.e. implies that \( {d}_{g} \leq {d}_{f} \) ;\n\n(2) \( {d}_{cf}\left( \alpha \right) = {d}_{f}\left( {\alpha /\left| ...
Proof. The simple proofs are left to the reader.
No
Proposition 1.1.4. Let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) be a \( \sigma \) -finite measure space. Then for \( f \) in \( {L}^{p}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) , \( 0 < p < \infty \), we have\n\n\[ \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}}^{p} = p{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{\alpha }^{p - 1}{d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) {d\alpha }.\ ]\n\n(1.1.6)...
Proof. Indeed, we have\n\n\[ p{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{\alpha }^{p - 1}{d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) {d\alpha } = p{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{\alpha }^{p - 1}{\int }_{X}{\chi }_{\{ x : \left| {f\left( x\right) }\right| > \alpha \} }{d\mu }\left( x\right) {d\alpha }\ ]\n\n\[ = {\int }_{X}{\int }_{0}^{\left| f\left( x\right) \rig...
Yes
Proposition 1.1.6. For any \( 0 < p < \infty \) and any \( f \) in \( {L}^{p}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) we have\n\n\[ \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p,\infty }} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}} \]\n\nHence the embedding \( {L}^{p}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \subseteqq {L}^{p,\infty }\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) holds.
Proof. This is just a trivial consequence of Chebyshev's inequality:\n\n\[ {\alpha }^{p}{d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) \leq {\int }_{\{ x : \left| {f\left( x\right) }\right| > \alpha \} }{\left| f\left( x\right) \right| }^{p}{d\mu }\left( x\right) \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}}^{p}. \]\n\nUsing (1.1.9) we obtain ...
Yes
Proposition 1.1.9. Let \( 0 < p \leq \infty \) and \( {f}_{n}, f \) be in \( {L}^{p,\infty }\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) . (1) If \( {f}_{n}, f \) are in \( {L}^{p} \) and \( {f}_{n} \rightarrow f \) in \( {L}^{p} \), then \( {f}_{n} \rightarrow f \) in \( {L}^{p,\infty } \) .
Proof. Fix \( 0 < p < \infty \) . Proposition 1.1.6 gives that for all \( \varepsilon > 0 \) we have \[ \mu \left( \left\{ {x \in X : \left| {{f}_{n}\left( x\right) - f\left( x\right) }\right| > \varepsilon }\right\} \right) \leq \frac{1}{{\varepsilon }^{p}}{\int }_{X}{\left| {f}_{n} - f\right| }^{p}{d\mu }. \] This sh...
Yes
Theorem 1.1.13. Let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) be a measure space and let \( \left\{ {f}_{n}\right\} \) be a complex-valued sequence on \( X \) that is Cauchy in measure. Then some subsequence of \( {f}_{n} \) converges \( \mu \) -a.e.
Proof. The proof is very similar to that of Theorem 1.1.11. For all \( k = 1,2,\ldots \) choose \( {n}_{k} \) inductively such that\n\n\[ \mu \left( \left\{ {x \in X : \left| {{f}_{{n}_{k}}\left( x\right) - {f}_{{n}_{k + 1}}\left( x\right) }\right| > {2}^{-k}}\right\} \right) < {2}^{-k} \]\n\n(1.1.20)\n\nand such that ...
Yes
Proposition 1.1.14. Let \( 0 < p < q \leq \infty \) and let \( f \) in \( {L}^{p,\infty }\left( {X,\mu }\right) \cap {L}^{q,\infty }\left( {X,\mu }\right) \), where \( X \) is a \( \sigma \) -finite measure space. Then \( f \) is in \( {L}^{r}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) for all \( p < r < q \) and\n\n\[ \parallel f{\para...
Proof. Let us take first \( q < \infty \) . We know that\n\n\[ {d}_{f}\left( \mathbf{\alpha }\right) \leq \min \left( {\frac{\parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p,\infty }}^{p}}{{\mathbf{\alpha }}^{p}},\frac{\parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{q,\infty }}^{q}}{{\mathbf{\alpha }}^{q}}}\right) . \]\n\nSet\n\n\[ B = {\left( \frac{\pa...
Yes
Let \( G = {\mathbf{R}}^{ * } = \mathbf{R} \smallsetminus \{ 0\} \) with group law the usual multiplication. It is easy to verify that the measure \( \lambda = {dx}/\left| x\right| \) is invariant under multiplicative translations, that is,
\[ {\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }f\left( {tx}\right) \frac{dx}{\left| x\right| } = {\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }f\left( x\right) \frac{dx}{\left| x\right| } \] for all \( f \) in \( {L}^{1}\left( {G,\mu }\right) \) and all \( t \in {\mathbf{R}}^{ * } \) . Therefore, \( {dx}/\left| x\right| \) is a Haar measure. [Taking \(...
Yes
Example 1.2.5. The Heisenberg group \( {\mathbf{H}}^{n} \) is the set \( {\mathbf{C}}^{n} \times \mathbf{R} \) with the group operation\n\n\[ \n\left( {{z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n}, t}\right) \left( {{w}_{1},\ldots ,{w}_{n}, s}\right) = \left( {{z}_{1} + {w}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n} + {w}_{n}, t + s + 2\operatorname{Im}\mathop{\...
It can easily be seen that the identity element \( e \) of this group is \( 0 \in {\mathbf{C}}^{n} \times \mathbf{R} \) and \( {\left( {z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n}, t\right) }^{-1} = \left( {-{z}_{1},\ldots , - {z}_{n}, - t}\right) \) . Topologically the Heisenberg group is identified with \( {\mathbf{C}}^{n} \times \mathbf...
Yes
On R let \( f\left( x\right) = 1 \) when \( - 1 \leq x \leq 1 \) and zero otherwise. We see that \( \left( {f * f}\right) \left( x\right) \) is equal to the length of the intersection of the intervals \( \left\lbrack {-1,1}\right\rbrack \) and \( \left\lbrack {x - 1, x + 1}\right\rbrack \) .
It follows that \( \left( {f * f}\right) \left( x\right) = 2 - \left| x\right| \) for \( \left| x\right| \leq 2 \) and zero otherwise. Observe that \( f * f \) is a smoother function than \( f \) . Similarly, we obtain that \( f * f * f \) is a smoother function than \( f * f \) .
Yes
Proposition 1.2.9. For all \( f, g, h \) in \( {L}^{1}\left( G\right) \), the following properties are valid:\n\n(1) \( f * \left( {g * h}\right) = \left( {f * g}\right) * h \) (associativity)\n\n\( \left( 2\right) \;f * \left( {g + h}\right) = f * g + f * h\; \) and \( \;\left( {f + g}\right) * h = f * h + g * h\; \) ...
Proof. The easy proofs are omitted.
No
Theorem 1.2.10. (Minkowski’s inequality) Let \( 1 \leq p \leq \infty \) . For \( f \) in \( {L}^{p}\left( G\right) \) and \( g \) in \( {L}^{1}\left( G\right) \) we have that \( g * f \) exists \( \lambda \) -a.e. and satisfies\n\n\[ \parallel g * f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}\left( G\right) } \leq \parallel g{\parallel }_{{L...
Proof. Estimate (1.2.7) follows directly from Exercise 1.1.6. Here we give a direct proof. We may assume that \( 1 < p < \infty \), since the cases \( p = 1 \) and \( p = \infty \) are simple. We first show that the convolution \( \left| g\right| * \left| f\right| \) exists \( \lambda \) -a.e. Indeed,\n\n\[ \left( {\le...
Yes
Theorem 1.2.13. (Young’s inequality for weak type spaces) Let \( G \) be a locally compact group with left Haar measure \( \lambda \) that satisfies (1.2.12). Let \( 1 \leq p < \infty \) and \( 1 < q, r < \infty \) satisfy \[ \frac{1}{q} + 1 = \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{r} \] Then there exists a constant \( {C}_{p, q, r} >...
Proof. As in the proofs of Theorems 1.2.10 and 1.2.12, we first obtain (1.2.16) for the convolution of the absolute values of the functions. This implies that \( \left| f\right| * \left| g\right| < \infty \) \( \lambda \) -a.e., and thus \( f * g \) exists \( \lambda \) -a.e. and satisfies \( \left| {f * g}\right| \leq...
No
Theorem 1.2.13 may fail at some endpoints:
(1) \( r = 1 \) and \( 1 \leq p = q \leq \infty \) . On \( \mathbf{R} \) take \( g\left( x\right) = 1/\left| x\right| \) and \( f = {\chi }_{\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack } \) . Clearly, \( g \) is in \( {L}^{1,\infty } \) and \( f \) in \( {L}^{p} \) for all \( 1 \leq p \leq \infty \), but the convolution of \( f \) a...
Yes
On R let \( P\left( x\right) = {\left( \pi \left( {x}^{2} + 1\right) \right) }^{-1} \) and \( {P}_{\varepsilon }\left( x\right) = {\varepsilon }^{-1}P\left( {{\varepsilon }^{-1}x}\right) \) for \( \varepsilon > 0 \) . Since \( {P}_{\varepsilon } \) and \( P \) have the same \( {L}^{1} \) norm and
\[ {\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }\frac{1}{{x}^{2} + 1}{dx} = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{x \rightarrow + \infty }}\left\lbrack {\arctan \left( x\right) - \arctan \left( {-x}\right) }\right\rbrack = \left( {\pi /2}\right) - \left( {-\pi /2}\right) = \pi ,\] property (ii) is satisfied. Property (iii) follows from the fact tha...
Yes
On \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) let \( k\left( x\right) \) be an integrable function with integral one. Let \( {k}_{\varepsilon }\left( x\right) = {\varepsilon }^{-n}k\left( {{\varepsilon }^{-1}x}\right) \) . It is straightforward to see that \( {k}_{\varepsilon }\left( x\right) \) is an approximate identity. Property (iii) ...
\[ {\int }_{\left| x\right| \geq \delta /\varepsilon }\left| {k\left( x\right) }\right| {dx} \rightarrow 0 \] as \( \varepsilon \rightarrow 0 \) for \( \delta \) fixed.
Yes
On the circle group \( {\mathbf{T}}^{1} \) let\n\n\[ \n{F}_{N}\left( t\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = - N}}^{N}\left( {1 - \frac{\left| j\right| }{N + 1}}\right) {e}^{2\pi ijt} = \frac{1}{N + 1}{\left( \frac{\sin \left( {\pi \left( {N + 1}\right) t}\right) }{\sin \left( {\pi t}\right) }\right) }^{2}. \n\]\n\n(1.2...
To check the previous equality we use that\n\n\[ \n{\sin }^{2}\left( x\right) = \left( {2 - {e}^{2ix} - {e}^{-{2ix}}}\right) /4 \n\]\n\nand we carry out the calculation.
No
Theorem 1.2.19. Let \( {k}_{\varepsilon } \) be an approximate identity on a locally compact group \( G \) with left Haar measure \( \lambda \) . (1) If \( f \) lies in \( {L}^{p}\left( G\right) \) for \( 1 \leq p < \infty \), then \( {\begin{Vmatrix}{k}_{\varepsilon } * f - f\end{Vmatrix}}_{{L}^{p}\left( G\right) } \r...
Proof. We start with the case \( 1 \leq p < \infty \) . We recall that continuous functions with compact support are dense in \( {L}^{p} \) of locally compact Hausdorff spaces equipped with measures arising from nonnegative linear functionals; see [152, Theorem 12.10]. For a continuous function \( g \) supported in a c...
Yes
Theorem 1.3.2. Let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) be a \( \sigma \) -finite measure space, let \( \left( {Y,\nu }\right) \) be another measure space, and let \( 0 < {p}_{0} < {p}_{1} \leq \infty \) . Let \( T \) be a sublinear operator defined on \( {L}^{{p}_{0}}\left( X\right) + {L}^{{p}_{1}}\left( X\right) = \left\{ {{...
Proof. Assume first that \( {p}_{1} < \infty \) . Fix \( f \) a function in \( {L}^{p}\left( X\right) \) and \( \alpha > 0 \) . We split \( f = {f}_{0}^{\alpha } + {f}_{1}^{\alpha } \), where \( {f}_{0}^{\alpha } \) is in \( {L}^{{p}_{0}} \) and \( {f}_{1}^{\alpha } \) is in \( {L}^{{p}_{1}} \) . The splitting is obtai...
Yes
Theorem 1.3.4. Let \( \\left( {X,\\mu }\\right) \) and \( \\left( {Y, v}\\right) \) be two \( \\sigma \) -finite measure spaces. Let \( T \) be a linear operator defined on the set of all finitely simple functions on \( X \) and taking values in the set of measurable functions on \( Y \) . Let \( 1 \\leq {p}_{0},{p}_{1...
Proof. Let\n\n\[ \nf = \\mathop{\\sum }\\limits_{{k = 1}}^{m}{a}_{k}{e}^{i{\\alpha }_{k}}{\\chi }_{{A}_{k}} \n\]\n\nbe a finitely simple function on \( X \), where \( {a}_{k} > 0,{\\alpha }_{k} \) are real, and \( {A}_{k} \) are pairwise disjoint subsets of \( X \) with finite measure.\n\nWe need to control\n\n\[ \n\\p...
Yes
Lemma 1.3.5. Let \( F \) be analytic in the open strip \( S = \{ z \in \mathbf{C} : 0 < \operatorname{Re}z < 1\} \) , continuous and bounded on its closure, such that \( \left| {F\left( z\right) }\right| \leq {B}_{0} \) when \( \operatorname{Re}z = 0 \) and \( \left| {F\left( z\right) }\right| \leq {B}_{1} \) when \( \...
To prove the lemma we define analytic functions\n\n\[ G\left( z\right) = F\left( z\right) {\left( {B}_{0}^{1 - z}{B}_{1}^{z}\right) }^{-1}\;\text{ and }\;{G}_{n}\left( z\right) = G\left( z\right) {e}^{\left( {{z}^{2} - 1}\right) /n} \]\n\nfor \( z \) in the unit strip \( S \), for \( n = 1,2,\ldots \) Since \( F \) is ...
Yes
One may prove Young's inequality (Theorem 1.2.12) using the Riesz-Thorin interpolation theorem (Theorem 1.3.4). Fix a function \( g \) in \( {L}^{r} \) and let \( T\left( f\right) = f * g \) . Since \( T : {L}^{1} \rightarrow {L}^{r} \) with norm at most \( \parallel g{\parallel }_{{L}^{r}} \) and \( T : {L}^{{r}^{\pri...
\[ \frac{1}{p} = \frac{1 - \theta }{1} + \frac{\theta }{{r}^{\prime }}\;\text{ and }\;\frac{1}{q} = \frac{1 - \theta }{r} + \frac{\theta }{\infty }. \] (1.3.19) Finally, observe that equations (1.3.19) give (1.2.13).
Yes
Theorem 1.3.7. Let \( {T}_{z} \) be an analytic family of linear operators of admissible growth defined on the space of finitely simple functions of a \( \sigma \) -finite measure space \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) and taking values in the set of measurable functions of another \( \sigma \) -finite measure space \( \le...
Note that in view of (1.3.24), the integral defining \( M\left( t\right) \) converges absolutely. The proof of the previous theorem is based on an extension of Lemma 1.3.5.
No
Consider the simple function of Example 1.1.2,\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{N}{a}_{j}{\chi }_{{E}_{j}}\left( x\right) \]\n\nwhere \( {E}_{j} \) are pairwise disjoint sets of finite measure and \( {a}_{1} > \cdots > {a}_{N} > 0 \) . We saw in Example 1.1.2 that\n\n\[ {d}_{f}\left( \mathbf{\a...
Observe that for \( {B}_{0} \leq t < {B}_{1} \), the smallest \( s > 0 \) with \( {d}_{f}\left( s\right) \leq t \) is \( {a}_{1} \) . Similarly, for \( {B}_{1} \leq t < {B}_{2} \), the smallest \( s > 0 \) with \( {d}_{f}\left( s\right) \leq t \) is \( {a}_{2} \) . Arguing this way, it is not difficult to see that\n\n\...
Yes
On \( \left( {{\mathbf{R}}^{n},{dx}}\right) \) let\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) = \frac{1}{1 + {\left| x\right| }^{p}},\;0 < p < \infty . \]\n
A computation shows that\n\n\[ {d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} {v}_{n}{\left( \frac{1}{\alpha } - 1\right) }^{\frac{n}{p}} & \text{ if }\alpha < 1, \\ 0 & \text{ if }\alpha \geq 1, \end{array}\right. \]\n\nand therefore\n\n\[ {f}^{ * }\left( t\right) = \frac{1}{{\left( t/{v}_{n}\right) }^{p/n} ...
Yes
Example 1.4.4. Again on \( \left( {{\mathbf{R}}^{n},{dx}}\right) \) let \( g\left( x\right) = 1 - {e}^{-{\left| x\right| }^{2}} \) . We can easily see that \( {d}_{g}\left( \alpha \right) = 0 \) if \( \alpha \geq 1 \) and \( {d}_{g}\left( \alpha \right) = \infty \) if \( \alpha < 1 \) . We conclude that \( {g}^{ * }\le...
This example indicates that although quantitative information is preserved, significant qualitative information is lost in passing from a function to its decreasing rearrangement.
No
Proposition 1.4.5. For \( f, g,{f}_{n}\mu \) -measurable, \( k \in \mathbf{C} \), and \( 0 \leq t, s,{t}_{1},{t}_{2} < \infty \) we have\n\n(1) \( {f}^{ * }\left( {{d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) }\right) \leq \alpha \) whenever \( \alpha > 0 \) .
Proof. Property (1): The set \( A = \left\{ {s > 0 : {d}_{f}\left( s\right) \leq {d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) }\right\} \) contains \( \alpha \) and thus \( {f}^{ * }\left( {{d}_{f}\left( \alpha \right) }\right) = \inf A \leq \alpha .
Yes
Using the notation of Example 1.4.2, when \( 0 < p, q < \infty \) we have\n\n\[ \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, q}} = {\left( \frac{p}{q}\right) }^{\frac{1}{q}}{\left\lbrack {a}_{1}^{q}{B}_{1}^{\frac{q}{p}} + {a}_{2}^{q}\left( {B}_{2}^{\frac{q}{p}} - {B}_{1}^{\frac{q}{p}}\right) + \cdots + {a}_{N}^{q}\left( {B}_{N}^{\...
and also\n\n\[ \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p,\infty }} = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{1 \leq j \leq N}}{a}_{j}{B}_{j}^{\frac{1}{p}}. \]
Yes
Proposition 1.4.9. For \( 0 < p < \infty \) and \( 0 < q \leq \infty \), we have the identity\n\n\[ \n\parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, q}} = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} {p}^{\frac{1}{q}}{\left( {\int }_{0}^{\infty }{\left\lbrack {d}_{f}{\left( s\right) }^{\frac{1}{p}}s\right\rbrack }^{q}\frac{ds}{s}\right) }^{\frac{1}{q}...
Proof. The case \( q = \infty \) is statement (16) in Proposition 1.4.5, and we may therefore concentrate on the case \( q < \infty \) . If \( f \) is the simple function of Example 1.1.2, then\n\n\[ \n{d}_{f}\left( s\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{N}{B}_{j}{\chi }_{\left\lbrack {a}_{j + 1},{a}_{j}\right) }\...
No
Proposition 1.4.10. Suppose \( 0 < p \leq \infty \) and \( 0 < q < r \leq \infty \) . Then there exists a constant \( {c}_{p, q, r} \) (which depends on \( p, q \), and \( r \) ) such that\n\n\[ \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, r}} \leq {c}_{p, q, r}\parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, q}} \]\n\n(1.4.6)\n\nIn other words, ...
Proof. We may assume \( p < \infty \), since the case \( p = \infty \) is trivial. We have\n\n\[ {t}^{1/p}{f}^{ * }\left( t\right) = {\left\{ \frac{q}{p}{\int }_{0}^{t}{\left\lbrack {s}^{1/p}{f}^{ * }\left( t\right) \right\rbrack }^{q}\frac{ds}{s}\right\} }^{1/q} \]\n\n\[ \leq {\left\{ \frac{q}{p}{\int }_{0}^{t}{\left\...
Yes
Theorem 1.4.11. Let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) be a measure space. Then for all \( 0 < p, q \leq \infty \), the spaces \( {L}^{p, q}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) are complete with respect to their quasi-norm and they are therefore quasi-Banach spaces.
Proof. We consider only the case \( p < \infty \) . First we note that convergence in \( {L}^{p, q} \) implies convergence in measure. When \( q = \infty \), this is proved in Proposition 1.1.9. When \( q < \infty \), in view of Proposition 1.4.5 (16) and (1.4.7), it follows that\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{t > 0}}{t...
Yes
Theorem 1.4.13. Finitely simple functions are dense in \( {L}^{p, q}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) when \( 0 < q < \infty \) .
Proof. Let \( f \in {L}^{p, q}\left( {X,\mu }\right) \) . Assume without loss of generality that \( f \geq 0 \) . Since \( f \) lies in \( {L}^{p, q} \subseteq {L}^{p,\infty } \) we have \( \mu {\left( \{ f > \varepsilon \} \right) }^{1/p}\varepsilon \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, q}} < \infty \) for every \( \v...
Yes
Lemma 1.4.20. Let \( 0 < p < \infty \) and \( 0 < q \leq \infty \) and let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) ,\left( {Y,\nu }\right) \) be \( \sigma \) -finite measure spaces. Let \( T \) be a quasi-linear operator defined on \( S\left( X\right) \) and taking values in the set of measurable functions on \( Y \) . Suppose that ...
Proof. A function \( f \) in \( {S}_{0}\left( X\right) \) can be written as \( f = {h}_{1} - {h}_{2} + i\left( {{h}_{3} - {h}_{4}}\right) \), where \( {h}_{j} \) are in \( {S}_{0}^{ + }\left( X\right) \) . We write \( f = {f}_{1} - {f}_{2} + i\left( {{f}_{3} - {f}_{4}}\right) \), where \( {f}_{1} = \max \left( {{h}_{1}...
Yes
Proposition 1.4.5(2) implies \( \mu \left( {A}_{k}\right) \leq {d}_{f}\left( {{f}^{ * }\left( {2}^{k + 1}\right) }\right) \leq {2}^{k + 1} \)
\[ \parallel T\left( f\right) {\parallel }_{{L}^{q,\infty }\left( Y\right) } \leq 4{\begin{Vmatrix}{\left( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = - N}}^{N}{\left| T\left( f{\chi }_{{A}_{k}}\right) \right| }^{\alpha }\right) }^{\frac{1}{\alpha }}\end{Vmatrix}}_{{L}^{q,\infty }\left( Y\right) } = 4{\begin{Vmatrix}\mathop{\sum }\lim...
Yes
Corollary 1.4.22. Let \( T \) be as in the statement of Theorem 1.4.19 and let \( 0 < {p}_{0} \neq \) \( {p}_{1} \leq \infty \) and \( 0 < {q}_{0} \neq {q}_{1} \leq \infty \) . If \( T \) is restricted weak type \( \left( {{p}_{0},{q}_{0}}\right) \) and \( \left( {{p}_{1},{q}_{1}}\right) \) with constants \( {M}_{0} \)...
Proof. Since \( \theta \in \left( {0,1}\right) \) we must have \( p, q < \infty \) . Take \( r = q \) in Theorem 1.4.19 and note that \( \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p, r}} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}} \) since \( p \leq q = r \) ; see Proposition 1.4.10. The last assertion follows using Exercise 1.4.17.
No
Example 1.4.23. Let \( X = Y = \mathbf{R} \) and \[ T\left( f\right) \left( x\right) = {\left| x\right| }^{-1/2}{\int }_{0}^{1}f\left( t\right) {dt} \] Then \( \alpha {\left| \left\{ x : \left| T\left( {\chi }_{A}\right) \left( x\right) \right| > \alpha \right\} \right| }^{1/2} = {2}^{1/2}\left| {A \cap \left\lbrack {0...
The dual operator \[ S\left( f\right) \left( x\right) = {\chi }_{\left\lbrack 0,1\right\rbrack }\left( x\right) {\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }f\left( t\right) {\left| t\right| }^{-1/2}{dt} \] satisfies \( \alpha {\left| \left\{ x : \left| S\left( {\chi }_{A}\right) \left( x\right) \right| > \alpha \right\} \right| }^{1/...
Yes
Corollary 1.4.24. Let \( 1 \leq r < \infty ,1 \leq {p}_{0} \neq {p}_{1} < \infty \), and \( 0 < {q}_{0} \neq {q}_{1} \leq \infty \) and let \( \left( {X,\mu }\right) \) and \( \left( {Y,\nu }\right) \) be \( \sigma \) -finite measure spaces. Let \( T \) be a quasi-linear operator defined on \( {L}^{{p}_{0}}\left( X\rig...
Proof. Since \( {L}^{p}\left( X\right) \) is contained in the sum \( {L}^{{p}_{0}}\left( X\right) + {L}^{{p}_{1}}\left( X\right) \), the operator \( T \) is well defined on \( {L}^{p}\left( X\right) \) . Hypothesis (1.4.42) implies that (1.4.30) holds for all \( f \in {L}^{{p}_{j},1} \) . Repeat the proof of Theorem 1....
Yes
Theorem 1.4.25. (Young’s inequality for weak type spaces) Let \( G \) be a locally compact group with left Haar measure \( \lambda \) that satisfies (1.2.12) for all measurable subsets A of G. Let \( 1 < p, q, r < \infty \) satisfy\n\n\[ \n\frac{1}{q} + 1 = \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{r} \n\]\n\n(1.4.45)\n\nThen there exist...
Proof. We fix \( 1 < p, q < \infty \) . Since \( p \) and \( q \) range in an open interval, we can find \( {p}_{0} < p < {p}_{1},{q}_{0} < q < {q}_{1} \), and \( 0 < \theta < 1 \) such that (1.4.23) and (1.4.45) hold. Let \( T\left( f\right) = f * g \), defined for all functions \( f \) on \( G \) . By Theorem 1.2.13,...
Yes
On \( \mathbf{R} \), let \( f \) be the characteristic function of the interval \( \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) . For \( x \in \left( {a, b}\right) \), clearly \( \mathcal{M}\left( f\right) = 1 \) . For \( x \geq b \), a simple calculation shows that the largest average of \( f \) over all intervals \( \left( {x...
\[ \mathcal{M}\left( f\right) \left( x\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \left( {b - a}\right) /2\left| {x - b}\right| & \text{ when }x \leq a, \\ 1 & \text{ when }x \in \left( {a, b}\right) , \\ \left( {b - a}\right) /2\left| {x - a}\right| & \text{ when }x \geq b. \end{array}\right. \]
Yes
On \( \mathbf{R} \), let \( f \) be the characteristic function of the interval \( I = \left\lbrack {a, b}\right\rbrack \) . For \( x \in \left( {a, b}\right) \), clearly \( M\left( f\right) \left( x\right) = 1 \) . For \( x > b \), a calculation shows that the largest average of \( f \) over all intervals \( \left( {y...
\[ M\left( f\right) \left( x\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \left( {b - a}\right) /\left| {x - b}\right| & \text{ when }x \leq a, \\ 1 & \text{ when }x \in \left( {a, b}\right) , \\ \left( {b - a}\right) /\left| {x - a}\right| & \text{ when }x \geq b. \end{array}\right. \]
Yes
Lemma 2.1.5. Let \( \left\{ {{B}_{1},{B}_{2},\ldots ,{B}_{k}}\right\} \) be a finite collection of open balls in \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) . Then there exists a finite subcollection \( \left\{ {{B}_{{j}_{1}},\ldots ,{B}_{{j}_{l}}}\right\} \) of pairwise disjoint balls such that\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{r = 1}}^{l}\le...
Proof. Let us reindex the balls so that\n\n\[ \left| {B}_{1}\right| \geq \left| {B}_{2}\right| \geq \cdots \geq \left| {B}_{k}\right| \]\n\nLet \( {j}_{1} = 1 \) . Having chosen \( {j}_{1},{j}_{2},\ldots ,{j}_{i} \), let \( {j}_{i + 1} \) be the least index \( s > {j}_{i} \) such that \( \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{{m = ...
Yes
Theorem 2.1.6. The uncentered and centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators \( M \) and \( \mathcal{M} \) map \( {L}^{1}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) to \( {L}^{1,\infty }\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) with constant at most \( {3}^{n} \) and also \( {L}^{p}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) to \( {L}^{p}\left( ...
Proof. We claim that the set \( {E}_{\alpha } = \left\{ {x \in {\mathbf{R}}^{n} : M\left( f\right) \left( x\right) > \alpha }\right\} \) is open. Indeed, for \( x \in {E}_{\alpha } \), there is an open ball \( {B}_{x} \) that contains \( x \) such that the average of \( \left| f\right| \) over \( {B}_{x} \) is strictly...
Yes
Example 2.1.8. Let \( R > 0 \) . Then we have\n\n\[ \frac{{R}^{n}}{{\left( \left| x\right| + R\right) }^{n}} \leq M\left( {\chi }_{B\left( {0, R}\right) }\right) \left( x\right) \leq \frac{{6}^{n}{R}^{n}}{{\left( \left| x\right| + R\right) }^{n}}. \]
The lower estimate in (2.1.6), is an easy consequence of the fact that the ball \( B\left( {x,\left| x\right| + R}\right) \) contains the ball \( B\left( {0, R}\right) \) . For the upper estimate, we first consider the case where \( \left| x\right| \leq {2R} \), when clearly \( M\left( {\chi }_{B\left( {0, R}\right) }\...
Yes
Example 2.1.13. Let\n\n\[ \nP\left( x\right) = \frac{{c}_{n}}{{\left( 1 + {\left| x\right| }^{2}\right) }^{\frac{n + 1}{2}}}, \]\n\nwhere \( {c}_{n} \) is a constant such that\n\n\[ \n{\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}P\left( x\right) {dx} = 1 \]\n\nThe function \( P \) is called the Poisson kernel. We define \( {L}^{1} \) dil...
Let us now compute the value of the constant \( {c}_{n} \) . Denote by \( {\omega }_{n - 1} \) the surface area of \( {\mathbf{S}}^{n - 1} \) . Using polar coordinates, we obtain\n\n\[ \n\frac{1}{{c}_{n}} = {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}\frac{dx}{{\left( 1 + {\left| x\right| }^{2}\right) }^{\frac{n + 1}{2}}} \]\n\n\[ \n= {...
Yes
Theorem 2.1.14. Let \( 0 < p < \infty ,0 < q < \infty \), and \( {T}_{\varepsilon } \) and \( {T}_{ * } \) as previously. Suppose that for some \( B > 0 \) and all \( f \in {L}^{p}\left( X\right) \) we have\n\n\[ \n{\begin{Vmatrix}{T}_{ * }\left( f\right) \end{Vmatrix}}_{{L}^{q,\infty }} \leq B\parallel f{\parallel }_{...
Proof. Given \( f \) in \( {L}^{p} \), we define the oscillation of \( f \) :\n\n\[ \n{O}_{f}\left( y\right) = \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0}}\mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{\theta \rightarrow 0}}\left| {{T}_{\varepsilon }\left( f\right) \left( y\right) - {T}_{\theta }\left( f\right) \left( y\right) }...
Yes
Fix \( 1 \leq p < \infty \) and \( f \in {L}^{p}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \). Let\n\n\[ P\left( x\right) = \frac{\Gamma \left( \frac{n + 1}{2}\right) }{{\pi }^{\frac{n + 1}{2}}}\frac{1}{{\left( 1 + {\left| x\right| }^{2}\right) }^{\frac{n + 1}{2}}} \]\n\nbe the Poisson kernel on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) and let \( {...
Let \( D \) be the set of all continuous functions with compact support on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \). Since the family \( {\left( {P}_{\varepsilon }\right) }_{\varepsilon > 0} \) is an approximate identity, Theorem 1.2.19 (2) implies that for \( f \) in \( D \) we have that \( f * {P}_{\varepsilon } \rightarrow f \) unifo...
Yes
Corollary 2.1.16. (Lebesgue's differentiation theorem) For any locally integrable function \( f \) on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) we have\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{r \rightarrow 0}}\frac{1}{\left| B\left( x, r\right) \right| }{\int }_{B\left( {x, r}\right) }f\left( y\right) {dy} = f\left( x\right) \]\n\nfor almost all \...
Proof. Since \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) is the union of the balls \( B\left( {0, N}\right) \) for \( N = 1,2,3\ldots \), it suffices to prove the required conclusion for almost all \( x \) inside a fixed ball \( B\left( {0, N}\right) \) . Given a locally integrable function \( f \) on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \), consider the f...
Yes
Corollary 2.1.17. (Differentiation theorem for approximate identities) Let \( K \) be an \( {L}^{1} \) function on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) with integral 1 that has a continuous integrable radially decreasing majorant. Then \( f * {K}_{\varepsilon } \rightarrow f \) a.e. as \( \varepsilon \rightarrow 0 \) for all \( f \i...
Proof. It follows from Example 1.2.17 that \( {K}_{\varepsilon } \) is an approximate identity. Theorem 1.2.19 now implies that \( f * {K}_{\varepsilon } \rightarrow f \) uniformly on compact sets when \( f \) is continuous. Let \( D \) be the space of all continuous functions with compact support. Then \( f * {K}_{\va...
Yes
Corollary 2.1.19. (Differentiation theorem for multiples of approximate identities) Let \( K \) be a function on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) that has an integrable radially decreasing majorant.\n\nLet \( a = {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}K\left( x\right) {dx} \) . Then for all \( f \in {L}^{p}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) a...
Proof. Use Theorem 1.2.21 instead of Theorem 1.2.19 in the proof of Corollary 2.1.17.
No
Proposition 2.1.20. Given a nonnegative integrable function \( f \) on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) and \( \alpha > 0 \) , there exists a collection of disjoint (possibly empty) open cubes \( {Q}_{j} \) such that for almost all \( x \in {\left( \mathop{\bigcup }\limits_{j}{Q}_{j}\right) }^{c} \) we have \( f\left( x\right) \...
Proof. The proof provides an excellent paradigm of a stopping-time argument. Start by decomposing \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) as a union of cubes of equal size, whose interiors are disjoint, and whose diameter is so large that \( {\left| Q\right| }^{-1}{\int }_{Q}f\left( x\right) {dx} \leq \alpha \) for every \( Q \) in thi...
Yes
Corollary 2.1.21. Let \( f \geq 0 \) be an integrable function over a cube \( Q \) in \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) and let \( \alpha \geq \frac{1}{\left| Q\right| }{\int }_{Q}{fdx} \) . Then there exist disjoint (possibly empty) open subcubes \( {Q}_{j} \) of \( Q \) such that for almost all \( x \in Q \smallsetminus \mathop...
Proof. The proof easily follows by a simple modification of Proposition 2.1.20 in which \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) is replaced by the fixed cube \( Q \) . To apply Corollary 2.1.16, we extend \( f \) to be zero outside the cube \( Q \) .
Yes
Proposition 2.2.6. Let \( f,{f}_{k}, k = 1,2,3,\ldots \), be in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) . If \( {f}_{k} \rightarrow f \) in \( \mathcal{S} \) then \( {f}_{k} \rightarrow f \) in \( {L}^{p} \) for all \( 0 < p \leq \infty \) . Moreover, there exists a \( {C}_{p, n} > 0 \) such that\n\n\[ \n{\begi...
Proof. Observe that when \( p < \infty \) we have\n\n\[ \n{\begin{Vmatrix}{\partial }^{\beta }f\end{Vmatrix}}_{{L}^{p}} \leq {\left\lbrack {\int }_{\left| x\right| \leq 1}{\left| {\partial }^{\beta }f\left( x\right) \right| }^{p}dx + {\int }_{\left| x\right| \geq 1}{\left| x\right| }^{n + 1}{\left| {\partial }^{\beta }...
Yes
Proposition 2.2.7. Let \( f, g \) be in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) . Then \( {fg} \) and \( f * g \) are in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) . Moreover,\n\n\[ \n{\partial }^{\alpha }\left( {f * g}\right) = \left( {{\partial }^{\alpha }f}\right) * g = f * \left( {{\partial }^{\alpha }...
Proof. Fix \( f \) and \( g \) in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) . Let \( {e}_{j} \) be the unit vector \( \left( {0,\ldots ,1,\ldots ,0}\right) \) with 1 in the \( j \) th entry and zeros in all the other entries. Since \n\n\[ \n\frac{f\left( {y + h{e}_{j}}\right) - f\left( y\right) }{h} - \left( {{\p...
Yes
If \( f\left( x\right) = {e}^{-\pi {\left| x\right| }^{2}} \) defined on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \), then \( \widehat{f}\left( \xi \right) = f\left( \xi \right) \).
To prove this, observe that the function\n\n\[ s \mapsto {\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }{e}^{-\pi {\left( t + is\right) }^{2}}{dt},\;s \in \mathbf{R}, \]\n\ndefined on the line is constant (and thus equal to \( {\int }_{-\infty }^{+\infty }{e}^{-\pi {t}^{2}}{dt} \) ), since its derivative is\n\n\[ {\int }_{-\infty }^{+\i...
Yes
Proposition 2.2.11. Given \( f, g \) in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right), y \in {\mathbf{R}}^{n}, b \in \mathbf{C},\alpha \) a multi-index, and \( t > 0 \) , we have\n\n(1) \( \parallel \widehat{f}{\parallel }_{{L}^{\infty }} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{1}} \)
Proof. Property (1) follows directly from Definition 2.2.8.
Yes
Corollary 2.2.12. The Fourier transform of a radial function is radial. Products and convolutions of radial functions are radial.
Proof. Let \( {\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2} \) in \( {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \) with \( \left| {\xi }_{1}\right| = \left| {\xi }_{2}\right| \) . Then for some orthogonal matrix \( A \) we have \( A{\xi }_{1} = {\xi }_{2} \) . Since \( f \) is radial, we have \( f = f \circ A \) . Then\n\n\[ \widehat{f}\left( {\xi }_{2}\right) = \wide...
Yes
Theorem 2.2.14. Given \( f, g \), and \( h \) in \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \), we have\n\n(1) \( {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}f\left( x\right) \widehat{g}\left( x\right) {dx} = {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}\widehat{f}\left( x\right) g\left( x\right) {dx} \)
Proof. (1) follows immediately from the definition of the Fourier transform and Fubini's theorem.
No
Corollary 2.2.15. The Fourier transform is a homeomorphism from \( \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) onto itself.
Proof. The continuity of the Fourier transform (and its inverse) follows from Exercise 2.2.2, while Fourier inversion yields that this map is bijective.
No
Proposition 2.2.16. (Hausdorff-Young inequality) For every function \( f \) in \( {L}^{p}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) we have the estimate\n\n\[ \parallel \widehat{f}{\parallel }_{{L}^{{p}^{\prime }}} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{p}} \]\n\nwhenever \( 1 \leq p \leq 2 \) .
Proof. This follows easily from Theorem 1.3.4. Interpolate between the estimates \( \parallel \widehat{f}{\parallel }_{{L}^{\infty }} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{1}} \) (Proposition 2.2.11 (1)) and \( \parallel \widehat{f}{\parallel }_{{L}^{2}} \leq \parallel f{\parallel }_{{L}^{2}} \) to obtain \( \parallel \wi...
Yes
Proposition 2.2.17. (Riemann-Lebesgue lemma) For a function \( f \) in \( {L}^{1}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) we have that\n\n\[ \left| {\widehat{f}\left( \xi \right) }\right| \rightarrow 0\;\text{ as }\;\left| \xi \right| \rightarrow \infty . \]\n
Proof. Consider the function \( {\chi }_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack } \) on \( \mathbf{R} \) . A simple computation gives\n\n\[ \widehat{{\chi }_{\left\lbrack a, b\right\rbrack }}\left( \xi \right) = {\int }_{a}^{b}{e}^{-{2\pi ix\xi }}{dx} = \frac{{e}^{-{2\pi i\xi a}} - {e}^{-{2\pi i\xi b}}}{2\pi i\xi }, \]\n\nwhic...
Yes
We would like to find a Schwartz function \( f\left( {{x}_{1},{x}_{2},{x}_{3}}\right) \) on \( {\mathbf{R}}^{3} \) that satisfies the partial differential equation\n\n\[ f\left( x\right) + {\partial }_{1}^{2}{\partial }_{2}^{2}{\partial }_{3}^{4}f\left( x\right) + {4i}{\partial }_{1}^{2}f\left( x\right) + {\partial }_{...
Taking the Fourier transform on both sides of this identity and using Proposition 2.2.11 (2), (9) and the result of Example 2.2.9, we obtain\n\n\[ \widehat{f}\left( \xi \right) \left\lbrack {1 + {\left( 2\pi i{\xi }_{1}\right) }^{2}{\left( 2\pi i{\xi }_{2}\right) }^{2}{\left( 2\pi i{\xi }_{3}\right) }^{4} + {4i}{\left(...
Yes
Let \( \varphi \) be a nonzero \( {\mathcal{C}}_{0}^{\infty } \) function on \( \mathbf{R} \) . We call such functions smooth bumps. Define the sequence of smooth bumps \( {\varphi }_{k}\left( x\right) = \varphi \left( {x - k}\right) /k \) . Then \( {\varphi }_{k}\left( x\right) \) does not converge to zero in \( {\mat...
Clearly \( {\varphi }_{k} \rightarrow 0 \) in \( {\mathcal{C}}^{\infty }\left( \mathbf{R}\right) \) .
No
Proposition 2.3.4. (a) A linear functional \( u \) on \( {\mathcal{C}}_{0}^{\infty }\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) \) is a distribution if and only if for every compact \( K \subseteq {\mathbf{R}}^{n} \), there exist \( C > 0 \) and an integer \( m \) such that
Proof. We prove only (2.3.3), since the proofs of (2.3.2) and (2.3.4) are similar. It is clear that (2.3.3) implies continuity of \( u \) . Conversely, it was pointed out in Section 2.2 that the family of sets \( \left\{ {f \in \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) : {\rho }_{\alpha ,\beta }\left( f\right) < \delta...
No
We observe that \( \widehat{{\delta }_{0}} = 1 \) . More generally, for any multi-index \( \alpha \) we have\n\n\[ \n{\left( {\partial }^{\alpha }{\delta }_{0}\right) }^{ \land } = {\left( 2\pi ix\right) }^{\alpha }\n\]
To see this, observe that for all \( f \in \mathcal{S} \) we have\n\n\[ \n\left\langle {{\left( {\partial }^{\alpha }{\delta }_{0}\right) }^{ \land }, f}\right\rangle = \left\langle {{\partial }^{\alpha }{\delta }_{0},\widehat{f}}\right\rangle \n\]\n\n\[ \n= {\left( -1\right) }^{\left| \alpha \right| }\left\langle {{\d...
Yes
Recall that for \( {x}_{0} \in {\mathbf{R}}^{n},{\delta }_{{x}_{0}}\left( f\right) = \left\langle {{\delta }_{{x}_{0}}, f}\right\rangle = f\left( {x}_{0}\right) \) . Then
\n\left\langle {\widehat{{\delta }_{{x}_{0}}}, h}\right\rangle = \left\langle {{\delta }_{{x}_{0}},\widehat{h}}\right\rangle = \widehat{h}\left( {x}_{0}\right) = {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}h\left( x\right) {e}^{-{2\pi ix} \cdot {x}_{0}}{dx},\;h \in \mathcal{S}\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) ,\n\nthat is, \( \widehat{{\de...
Yes
Example 2.3.14. Let \( u = {\delta }_{{x}_{0}} \) and \( f \in \mathcal{S} \) . Then \( f * {\delta }_{{x}_{0}} \) is the function \( x \mapsto f\left( {x - {x}_{0}}\right) \) , for when \( h \in \mathcal{S} \), we have
\[ \left\langle {f * {\delta }_{{x}_{0}}, h}\right\rangle = \left\langle {{\delta }_{{x}_{0}},\widetilde{f} * h}\right\rangle = \left( {\widetilde{f} * h}\right) \left( {x}_{0}\right) = {\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^{n}}f\left( {x - {x}_{0}}\right) h\left( x\right) {dx}. \]
Yes
Proposition 2.3.22. Given \( u, v \) in \( {\mathcal{S}}^{\prime }\left( {\mathbf{R}}^{n}\right) ,{f}_{j}, f \in \mathcal{S}, y \in {\mathbf{R}}^{n}, b \) a complex scalar, \( \alpha \) a multi-index, and \( a > 0 \), we have\n\n(1) \( \widehat{u + v} = \widehat{u} + \widehat{v} \) ,\n\n(2) \( \overset{⏜}{bu} = b\overs...
Proof. All the statements can be proved easily using duality and the corresponding statements for Schwartz functions.
No