$H^1$ to $L^q$-boundedness of fractional integral operators having a flag kernel
Jiashu Zhang, Zipeng Wang
TL;DR
This work characterizes the $H^1(\mathbb{R}^{n+m}) \to L^q(\mathbb{R}^{n+m})$ boundedness of a family of flag-kernel fractional integral operators $I_{αβ}^{ρ}$ with kernels $Ω^{αβ}_{ρ}$ under non-isotropic dilations. It identifies necessary dilation-based conditions for general $L^p \to L^q$ boundedness, and shows a sharp endpoint result: $I_{αβ}^{ρ}$ maps ${H^1}$ to ${L^q}$ when $α/n > β/m$ and $(α+ρβ)/(n+ρ m) = 1 - 1/q$, while a counterexample demonstrates failure at the borderline $α/n = β/m$. The proofs combine kernel-dominance arguments and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev theory for the $L^p \to L^q$ case with an atomic-decomposition/dyadic analysis for the $H^1$ endpoint, exploiting the flag structure of the kernel. Overall, the results extend classical and product Hardy space theory to non-isotropic, flag-type fractional integrals and precisely delineate end-point behavior.
Abstract
We study a family of fractional integral operators whose kernels satisfying an non-isotropic dilation have singularity on a coordinate subspace. A characterization is given for these operators bounded from the classical, atom decomposable $H^1$-Hardy space to $L^q$-spaces.
