Regularity of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator on block decreasing functions

We study the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator defined via an unconditional norm, acting on block decreasing functions. We show that the uncentered maximal operator maps block decreasing functions of special bounded variation to functions with integrable distributional derivatives, thus improving their regularity. In the special case of the maximal operator defined by the l_infty-norm, that is, by averaging over cubes, the result extends to block decreasing functions of bounded variation, not necessarily special.Comment: 26 page

Boundedness and unboundedness results for some maximal operators on functions of bounded variation

We characterize the space $BV(I)$ of functions of bounded variation on an arbitrary interval $I\subset \mathbb{R}$, in terms of a uniform boundedness condition satisfied by the local uncentered maximal operator $M_R$ from $BV(I)$ into the Sobolev space $W^{1,1}(I)$. By restriction, the corresponding characterization holds for $W^{1,1}(I)$. We also show that if $U$ is open in $\mathbb{R}^d, d >1$, then boundedness from $BV(U)$ into $W^{1,1}(U)$ fails for the local directional maximal operator $M_T^{v}$, the local strong maximal operator $M_T^S$, and the iterated local directional maximal operator $M_T^{d}\circ ...\circ M_T^{1}$. Nevertheless, if $U$ satisfies a cone condition, then $M_T^S:BV(U)\to L^1(U)$ boundedly, and the same happens with $M_T^{v}$, $M_T^{d} \circ ...\circ M_T^{1}$, and $M_R$.Comment: 15 page

On maximal and potential operators with rough kernels in variable exponent spaces

In the framework of variable exponent Lebesgue and Morrey spaces we prove some boundedness results for operators with rough kernels, such as the maximal operator, fractional maximal operator, sharp maximal operators and fractional operators. The approach is based on some pointwise estimates

Estimates for Bellman functions related to dyadic-like maximal operators on weighted spaces

We provide some new estimates for Bellman type functions for the dyadic maximal opeator on $R^n$ and of maximal operators on martingales related to weighted spaces. Using a type of symmetrization principle, introduced for the dyadic maximal operator in earlier works of the authors we introduce certain conditions on the weight that imply estimate for the maximal operator on the corresponding weighted space. Also using a well known estimate for the maximal operator by a double maximal operators on different m easures related to the weight we give new estimates for the above Bellman type functions.Comment: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.0611