Fractional integrals associated with Zygmund dilations
Zipeng Wang
TL;DR
This work characterizes $L^p$ to $L^q$ boundedness for a new class of fractional integrals ${\bf I}_{\alpha\beta}$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose kernels are tied to Zygmund dilations, with a sharp homogeneity condition $({\alpha+\beta})/2=1/p-1/q$ and $-1<\alpha,\beta<1$, $\alpha+\beta>0$. The authors develop a dyadic multi-parameter framework, defining $\Delta_\ell$ and related sets $\Gamma_{\ell jk}$ to achieve almost orthogonality and to bound the operator via Hedberg-type pointwise estimates involving the strong maximal function. Central to the argument are Propositions One and Two, which establish almost-orthogonality and decay in the index separation, and then are linked by a combination of kernel domination, self-adjointness, and interpolation (Riesz-Thorin) to prove the main theorem. The results extend Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev type inequalities to a mid-level dilation geometry between classical and fully anisotropic multi-parameter settings, advancing multi-parameter harmonic analysis for kernels with Zygmund-dilation singularities and offering a template for analogous kernels in higher dimensions.
Abstract
We study a family of fractional integral operators defined in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose kernels are distributions associated with Zygmund dilations: $(x_1, x_2, x_3) \rightarrow (δ_1 x_1, δ_2 x_2, δ_1δ_2 x_3)$ for $δ_1,δ_2>0$ having singularity on every coordinate subspace. As a result, we obtain a Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev type inequality.
