Boundedness of multilinear Littlewood--Paley operators with convolution type kernels on products of BMO spaces
Runzhe Zhang, Hua Wang
TL;DR
The paper addresses the problem of existence and boundedness for multilinear Littlewood--Paley operators on products of $\mathrm{BMO}$ spaces, showing that finiteness at a single point implies finiteness almost everywhere and that the square of these operators maps $([\mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb{R}^n)]^m)$ into $\mathrm{BLO}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ with bounds controlled by the $\mathrm{BMO}$ norms of the inputs. Using convolution-type kernels and a careful decomposition of the square functions, the authors extend linear and bilinear results to the multilinear setting, obtaining strong $L^p$ and weak-type bounds and BLO-continuity for $g(\vec{f})$, $S(\vec{f})$, and $g^{*}_{\lambda}(\vec{f})$, including the case when inputs are essentially bounded. They also show that these results persist for non-convolution type kernels, drawing on prior multilinear results and adapting the proofs to the multilinear context. Overall, the work extends the Littlewood--Paley theory in a robust way to multilinear operators on BMO spaces, producing sharp BLO-type bounds and expanding applicability to non-convolution kernels with potential PDE and analytic implications.
Abstract
In this paper, the authors establish the existence and boundedness of multilinear Littlewood--Paley operators on products of BMO spaces, including the multilinear $g$-function, multilinear Lusin's area integral and multilinear $g^{\ast}_λ$-function. The authors prove that if the above multilinear operators are finite for a single point, then they are finite almost everywhere. Moreover, it is shown that these multilinear operators are bounded from $\mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb R^n)\times\cdots\times \mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb R^n)$ into $\mathrm{BLO}(\mathbb R^n)$ (the space of functions with bounded lower oscillation), which is a proper subspace of $\mathrm{BMO}(\mathbb R^n)$ (the space of functions with bounded mean oscillation). The corresponding estimates for multilinear Littlewood--Paley operators with non-convolution type kernels are also discussed.
