Estimates for the maximal singular integral in terms of the singular integral:the case of even kernels

The purpose of this paper is to describe the smooth homogeneous Calderon-Zygmund operators for which the maximal singular integral T*f may be controlled by the singular integral Tf. We consider two types of control. The first is the L2 estimate of T*f by Tf, namely the estimate of the L2 norm of T*f by a constant times the L2 norm of Tf. The second is the pointwise estimate of T*f(x) by a constant times M(Tf)(x), where M denotes the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. Notice that this is an improved variant of Cotlar's inequality, because the term Mf(x) is missing on the right hand side. Our main result states that, for even operators, both are equivalent to a purely algebraic condition formulated in terms of the expansion of the kernel in spherical harmonics. The condition holds by higher order Riesz transforms, which then satisfy an improved version of Cotlar's inequalityComment: Minor misprints and English inaccuracies corrected, references updated. To appear in Annals on Mat

Lp and weak L1 estimates for the maximal Riesz transform and the maximal Beurling transform

We estimate in Lp the maximal Riesz transform in terms of the Riesz transform itself for p greater than 1. In the limiting case p=1 the weak L1 inequality is shown to fail. Surprisingly, the weak L1 inequality for the maximal Beurling transform in terms of the Beurling transform does hold.Comment: 12 page

Beltrami equation with coefficient in Sobolev and Besov spaces

Our goal in this work is to present some function spaces on the complex plane \C, X(\C), for which the quasiregular solutions of the Beltrami equation, $\bar\partial f (z) = \mu(z) \partial f (z)$, have first derivatives locally in X(\C), provided that the Beltrami coefficient $\mu$ belongs to X(\C)

Capacities associated with scalar signed Riesz kernels, and analytic capacity

The real and imaginari parts of the Cauchy kernel in the plane are scalar Riesz kernels of homogeneity -1. One can associate with each of them a natural notion of capacity related to bounded potentials. The main result of the paper asserts that these capacities are comparable to classical analytic capacity, thus stressing the real variables nature of analytic capacity. Higher dimensional versions of this result are also considered.Comment: 37 pages, ams.or

On rotating doubly connected vortices

In this paper we consider rotating doubly connected vortex patches for the Euler equations in the plane. When the inner interface is an ellipse we show that the exterior interface must be a confocal ellipse. We then discuss some relations, first found by Flierl and Polvani, between the parameters of the ellipses, the velocity of rotation and the magnitude of the vorticity in the domain enclosed by the inner ellipse.Comment: 30 page

A new characterization of Sobolev spaces on Rn\mathbb{R}^n

In this paper we present a new characterization of Sobolev spaces on Euclidian spaces ($\mathbb{R}^n$). Our characterizing condition is obtained via a quadratic multiscale expression which exploits the particular symmetry properties of Euclidean space. An interesting feature of our condition is that depends only on the metric of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and the Lebesgue measure, so that one can define Sobolev spaces of any order of smoothness on any metric measure space.Comment: Two references added. Some statements have been improved and proofs made clearer. Typos correcte

LpL^p estimates for the maximal singular integral in terms of the singular integral

This paper continues the study, initiated in the works {MOV} and {MOPV}, of the problem of controlling the maximal singular integral $T^{*}f$ by the singular integral $Tf$. Here $T$ is a smooth homogeneous Calder\'on-Zygmund singular integral operator of convolution type. We consider two forms of control, namely, in the weighted $L^p(\omega)$ norm and via pointwise estimates of $T^{*}f$ by $M(Tf)$ or $M^2(Tf)$\,, where $M$ is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator and $M^2=M \circ M$ its iteration. The novelty with respect to the aforementioned works, lies in the fact that here $p$ is different from 2 and the $L^p$ space is weighted

The maximal Beurling transform associated with squares

It is known that the improved Cotlar's inequality $B^{*}f(z) \le C M(Bf)(z)$, $z\in\mathbb C$, holds for the Beurling transform $B$, the maximal Beurling transform $B^{*}f(z)=$ $\displaystyle\sup_{\varepsilon >0}\left|\int_{|w|>\varepsilon}f(z-w) \frac{1}{w^2} \,dw\right|$, $z\in\mathbb C$, and the Hardy--Littlewood maximal operator $M$. In this note we consider the maximal Beurling transform associated with squares, namely, $B^{*}_Sf(z)=\displaystyle\sup_{\varepsilon >0}\left|\int_{w\notin Q(0,\varepsilon)}f(z-w) \frac{1}{w^2} \,dw \right|$, $z\in\mathbb C$, $Q(0,\varepsilon)$ being the square with sides parallel to the coordinate axis of side length $\varepsilon$. We prove that $B_{S}^{*}f(z) \le C M^2(Bf)(z)$, $z\in\mathbb C$, where $M^2=M \circ M$ is the iteration of the Hardy--Littlewood maximal operator, and $M^2$ cannot be replaced by $M$.Comment: 3 figure

A Note on Transport Equation in Quasiconformally Invariant Spaces

In this note, we study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the transport equation in the BMO space and certain Triebel-Lizorkin spaces.Comment: 14 page

Invariant Algebraic Slicing of the Spacetime

Using the momentum constraint, the standard evolution system is written in a fully first order form. The class of first order invariant algebraic slicing conditions is considered. The full set of characteristic fields is explicitly given. Characteristic speeds associated to the gauge dependent eigenfields (gauge speeds) are related to light speed.Comment: 4 pages, uuencoded gzip-compressed ps file. Also available at http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Papers/ To appear in the ERE (Menorca, Spain, Sept 94) 94 proceeding