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VOL. 74 1997 NO. 1

CES ` ARO SUMMABILITY OF ONE- AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRIGONOMETRIC-FOURIER SERIES

BY

FERENC W E I S Z (BUDAPEST)

We introduce p-quasilocal operators and prove that, if a sublinear oper- ator T is p-quasilocal and bounded from L to L , then it is also bounded from the classical Hardy space H p (T) to L p (0 < p ≤ 1). As an application it is shown that the maximal operator of the one-parameter Ces`aro means of a distribution is bounded from H p (T) to L p (3/4 < p ≤ ∞) and is of weak type (L 1 , L 1 ). We define the two-dimensional dyadic hybrid Hardy space H 1 (T 2 ) and verify that the maximal operator of the Ces`aro means of a two-dimensional function is of weak type (H 1 (T 2 ), L 1 ). So we deduce that the two-parameter Ces`aro means of a function f ∈ H 1 (T 2 ) ⊃ L log L converge a.e. to the function in question.

1. Introduction. It can be found in Zygmund [23] that the Ces`aro means σ n f of a function f ∈ L 1 (T) converge a.e. to f as n → ∞ and that if f ∈ L log + L(T 2 ) then the two-parameter Ces`aro summability holds.

Analogous results for Walsh–Fourier series are due to Fine [11] and M´oricz, Schipp and Wade [15].

The Hardy–Lorentz spaces H p,q of distributions on the unit circle are introduced with the L p,q Lorentz norms of the non-tangential maximal func- tion. Of course, H p = H p,p are the usual Hardy spaces (0 < p ≤ ∞).

In the one-dimensional case it is known (see Zygmund [23] and Torchin- sky [20]) that the maximal operator of the Ces`aro means sup n∈N |σ n | is of weak type (L 1 , L 1 ), i.e.

sup

γ>0

γλ(sup

n∈N |σ n f | > γ) ≤ Ckfk 1 (f ∈ L 1 (T))

(for the Walsh case see Schipp [17]). Also, for Walsh–Fourier series, the

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 42A24, 42B08; Secondary 42B30.

Key words and phrases: Hardy spaces, p-atom, atomic decomposition, p-quasilocal operator, interpolation, Ces` aro summability.

This research was supported by the Foundation for Hungarian Higher Education and Research.

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boundedness of the operator sup n∈Nn | from H p to L p was shown by Fujii [12] (p = 1) and by Weisz [21] (1/2 < p ≤ 1).

In this paper we generalize these results for trigonometric-Fourier series with the help of the so-called p-quasilocal operators. An operator T is p-quasilocal (0 < p ≤ 1) if for all p-atoms a the integral of |T a| p over T \ I is less than an absolute constant where I is the support of the atom a. We shall verify that a sublinear, p-quasilocal operator T which is bounded from L to L is also bounded from H p to L p (0 < p ≤ 1). By interpolation we find that T is bounded from H p,q to L p,q as well (0 < p < ∞, 0 < q ≤ ∞) and is of weak type (L 1 , L 1 ).

It will be shown that sup n∈Nn | is p-quasilocal for each 3/4 < p ≤ 1.

Consequently, sup n∈N |σ n | is bounded from H p,q to L p,q for 3/4 < p < ∞ and 0 < q ≤ ∞ and is of weak type (L 1 , L 1 ). We will extend this result also to (C, β) means.

For two-dimensional trigonometric-Fourier series we will verify that sup n,m∈Nn,m | is of weak type (H 1 , L 1 ) where H 1 is defined by the L 1 -norm of the two-dimensional hybrid non-tangential maximal function. Recall that L log L(T 2 ) ⊂ H 1 (see Zygmund [23]). A usual density argument implies then that σ n,m f → f a.e. as min(n, m) → ∞ whenever f ∈ H 1 .

2. Preliminaries and notations. For a set X 6= ∅ let X 2 be the Cartesian product X ×X; moreover, let T := [−π, π) and λ be the Lebesgue measure. We also use the notation |I| for the Lebesgue measure of the set I. We briefly write L p or L p (T j ) instead of the real L p (T j , λ) space (j = 1, 2), and the norm (or quasinorm) of this space is defined by kfk p :=

(

T

T j |f| p dλ) 1/p (0 < p ≤ ∞). For simplicity, we assume that for a function f ∈ L 1 we have

T

T f dλ = 0.

The distribution function of a Lebesgue-measurable function f is de- fined by

λ( {|f| > γ}) := λ({x : |f(x)| > γ}) (γ ≥ 0).

The weak L p space L p (0 < p < ∞) consists of all measurable functions f for which

kfk L p := sup

γ>0

γλ( {|f| > γ}) 1/p < ∞;

moreover, we set L = L .

The spaces L p are special cases of the more general Lorentz spaces L p,q . In their definition another concept is used. For a measurable function f the non-increasing rearrangement is defined by

f (t) := inf e {γ : λ({|f| > γ}) ≤ t}.

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The Lorentz space L p,q is defined as follows: for 0 < p < ∞, 0 < q < ∞, kfk p,q :=

 ∞

\

0

f (t) e q t q/p dt t

 1/q

while for 0 < p ≤ ∞,

kfk p,∞ := sup

t>0

t 1/p f (t). e Let

L p,q := L p,q (T j , λ) := {f : kfk p,q < ∞} (j = 1, 2).

One can show the following equalities:

L p,p = L p , L p,∞ = L p (0 < p ≤ ∞) (see e.g. Bennett–Sharpley [1] or Bergh–L¨ofstr¨ om [2]).

Let f be a distribution on C (T) (briefly f ∈ D (T) = D ). The nth Fourier coefficient is defined by b f (n) := f (e −ınx ) where ı = √

−1. In the special case when f is an integrable function,

f (n) = b 1 2π

\

T

f (x)e −ınx dx.

Denote by s n f the nth partial sum of the Fourier series of a distribution f , namely,

s n f (x) :=

X n k=−n

f (k)e b ıkx . For f ∈ D and z := re ıx (0 < r < 1) let

u(z) = u(re ıx ) := f ∗ P r (x) where ∗ denotes the convolution and

P r (x) :=

X ∞ k=−∞

r |k| e ıkx = 1 − r 2

1 + r 2 − 2r cos x (x ∈ T)

is the Poisson kernel. It is easy to show that u(z) is a harmonic function on the unit disc and

u(re ıx ) = X ∞ k=−∞

f (k)r b |k| e ıkx

with absolute and uniform convergence (see e.g. Kashin–Saakyan [13], Ed- wards [8]).

Let 0 < α < 1 be an arbitrary number. We denote by Ω α (x) (x ∈ T) the

region bounded by two tangents to the circle |z| = α from e ıx and the longer

arc of the circle included between the points of tangency. The non-tangential

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maximal function is defined by u α (x) := sup

z∈Ω α (x) |u(z)| (0 < α < 1).

For 0 < p, q ≤ ∞ the Hardy–Lorentz space H p,q (T) = H p,q consists of all distributions f for which u α ∈ L p,q ; we set

kfk H p,q := ku 1/2 k p,q .

The equivalence ku α k p,q ∼ ku 1/2 k p,q (0 < p, q < ∞, 0 < α < 1) was proved in Burkholder–Gundy–Silverstein [3] and Fefferman–Stein [10]. Note that in case p = q the usual definition of Hardy spaces H p,p = H p is obtained.

For other equivalent definitions we also refer to the previous two papers. It is known that if f ∈ H p then f (x) = lim r→1 u(re ıx ) in the sense of distribu- tions (see Fefferman–Stein [10]). Recall that L 1 ⊂ H 1,∞ and L log L ⊂ H 1 ; more exactly,

(1) kfk H 1 ,∞ = sup

γ>0

γλ(u 1/2 > γ) ≤ kfk 1 (f ∈ L 1 ) and

(2) kfk H 1 ≤ C + CE(|f| log + |f|) (f ∈ L log L)

where log + u = 1 {u>1} log u. Moreover, H p,q ∼ L p,q for 1 < p < ∞, 0 < q ≤

∞ (see Fefferman–Stein [10], Stein [19], Fefferman–Rivi`ere–Sagher [9]).

The following interpolation result concerning Hardy–Lorentz spaces will be used several times in this paper (see Fefferman–Rivi`ere–Sagher [9]).

Theorem A. If a sublinear operator T is bounded from H p 0 to L p 0 and from L ∞ to L ∞ then it is also bounded from H p,q to L p,q if p 0 < p < ∞ and 0 < q ≤ ∞.

3. Quasilocal operators. The atomic decomposition is a useful char- acterization of Hardy spaces. To demonstrate this let us introduce first the concept of an atom. A generalized interval on T is either an interval I ⊂ T or I = [ −π, x)∪[y, π). A bounded measurable function a is a p-atom if there exists a generalized interval I such that

(i)

T

I a(x)x α dx = 0 where α ∈ N and α ≤ [1/p − 1], the integer part of 1/p − 1,

(ii) kak ∞ ≤ |I| −1/p , (iii) {a 6= 0} ⊂ I.

The basic result on the atomic decomposition is stated as follows (see Coif- man [4], Coifman–Weiss [5] and also Weisz [22]).

Theorem B. A distribution f is in H p (0 < p ≤ 1) if and only if there

exist a sequence (a k , k ∈ N) of p-atoms and a sequence (µ k , k ∈ N) of real

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numbers such that

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X ∞ k=0

µ k a k = f in the sense of distributions, X ∞

k=0

|µ k | p < ∞.

Moreover , the following equivalence of norms holds:

(4) kfk H p ∼ inf  X

k=0

|µ k | p  1/p

where the infimum is taken over all decompositions of f of the form (3).

Motivated by the definition in M´oricz–Schipp–Wade [15] we introduce the quasilocal operators. Their definition is weakened and extended here.

An operator T which maps the set of distributions into the collection of measurable functions will be called p-quasilocal if there exists a constant C p > 0 such that

\

T\4I

|T a| p dλ ≤ C p

for every p-atom a where I is the support of the atom and 4I is the gener- alized interval with the same center as I and with length 4 |I|.

The quasilocal operators were defined in [15] only for p = 1 and for L 1

functions instead of atoms.

The following result gives sufficient conditions for T to be bounded from H p to L p . For the sake of completeness it is verified here.

Theorem 1. Suppose that the operator T is sublinear and p-quasilocal for some 0 < p ≤ 1. If T is bounded from L to L ∞ then

kT fk p ≤ C p kfk H p (f ∈ H p ).

P r o o f. Suppose that a is a p-atom with support I. By the p-quasilocality and L ∞ boundedness of T we obtain

\

T

|T a| p dλ =

\

4I

|T a| p dλ +

\

T\4I

|T a| p

≤ kT k p ∞ kak p ∞ 4 |I| + C p = C p

where the symbol C p may denote different constants in different contexts.

Applying Theorem B, we get kT fk p p ≤

X ∞ k=0

k | p kT a k k p p ≤ C p kfk p H p ,

which proves the theorem.

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Taking into account Theorem A and (1) we have

Corollary 1. Suppose that the operator T is sublinear and p-quasilocal for each p 0 < p ≤ 1. If T is bounded from L ∞ to L ∞ then

kT fk p,q ≤ C p,q kfk H p,q (f ∈ H p,q )

for every p 0 < p < ∞ and 0 < q ≤ ∞. In particular, T is of weak type (1, 1), i.e. if f ∈ L 1 then

kT fk 1,∞ = sup

γ>0

γλ( |T f| > γ) ≤ C 1 kfk H 1 ,∞ ≤ C 1 kfk 1 .

4. Ces` aro summability of one-dimensional trigonometric- Fourier series. For n ∈ N and a distribution f the Ces`aro mean of order n of the Fourier series of f is given by

σ n f := 1 n + 1

X n k=0

s k f = f ∗ K n (n ∈ N)

where K n is the Fej´er kernel of order n. It is shown in Zygmund [23] that

(5) 0 ≤ K n (t) ≤ π 2

(n + 1)t 2 (0 < |t| < π) and

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\

T

K n (t) dt = π.

As an application of Theorem 1 we have the following result.

Theorem 2. There are absolute constants C and C p,q such that

(7) k sup

n∈N |σ n f |k p,q ≤ C p,q kfk H p,q (f ∈ H p,q )

for every 3/4 < p < ∞ and 0 < q ≤ ∞. In particular, if f ∈ L 1 then

(8) λ(sup

n∈N |σ n f | > γ) ≤ C

γ kfk 1 (γ > 0).

P r o o f. By Corollary 1 the proof of Theorem 2 will be complete if we show that the operator sup n∈N |σ n | is p-quasilocal for each 3/4 < p ≤ 1 and bounded from L ∞ to L ∞ .

The boundedness follows from (6). To verify the p-quasilocality for 3/4 <

p ≤ 1 let a be an arbitrary p-atom with support I and 2 −K−1 < |I|/π ≤ 2 −K (K ∈ N). We can suppose that the center of I is zero. In this case

[ −π2 −K−2 , π2 −K−2 ] ⊂ I ⊂ [−π2 −K−1 , π2 −K−1 ].

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Obviously,

\

T\4I

sup

n∈N |σ n a(x) | p dx ≤

2 X K −1

|i|=1

π(i+1)2 −K

\

πi2 −K

sup

n∈N |σ n a(x) | p dx

2 X K −1

|i|=1

π(i+1)2 −K

\

πi2 −K

sup

n≥r i

|σ n a(x) | p dx

+

2 X K −1

|i|=1

π(i+1)2 −K

\

πi2 −K

sup

n<r i

n a(x) | p dx

= (A) + (B)

where r i := [2 K /i α ] (i ∈ N) with α > 0 to be chosen later.

It follows from (5) and from the definition of the atom that

n a(x) | =

\

T

a(t)K n (x − t) dt

≤ C p 2 K/p

\

I

1

(n + 1)(x − t) 2 dt.

By a simple calculation we get

π2 −K−1

\

−π2 −K−1

1

(x − t) 2 dt ≤ C2 −K

(π |i|2 −K − π2 −K−1 ) 2 ≤ C2 K i 2 if x ∈ [πi2 −K , π(i + 1)2 −K ) ( |i| ≥ 1). Hence

|σ n a(x) | p ≤ C p 2 K+Kp 1 (n + 1) p i 2p . Using the value of r i we can conclude that

(A) ≤ C p 2 X K −1

i=1

2 −K 2 K+Kp 1

(r i + 1) p i 2p ≤ C p 2 X K −1

i=1

1 i 2p−αp . This series is convergent if

(9) α < 2p − 1

p ( ≤ 1).

Now let us consider (B). It is well-known that σ n a(x) =

X n

|j|=1



1 − |j|

n + 1



ba(j)e ıjx . If n < r i then

|σ n a(x) | ≤ X n

|j|=1

 n + 1 − |j|

|j|



|ba(j)| ≤

r i

X

|j|=1

 r i − |j|

|j|



|ba(j)|.

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On the other hand, by the definition of the atom,

|ba(j)| =

1 2π

\

I

a(x)(e −ıjx − 1) dx ≤

1 2π

\

I

|a(x)| · |jx| dx ≤ |j| · |I| 2−1/p

4π .

Therefore sup

n<r i |σ n a(x) | ≤ C p r i

X

j=1

(r i − j)2 −K(2−1/p) ≤ C p r i 2 2 −K(2−1/p) . Finally, we can estimate (B):

(B) ≤ C p 2 X K −1

i=1

2 −K

 2 K i α

 2p

2 −K(2−1/p)p = C p 2 X K −1

i=1

1 i 2αp . The last series converges if

(10) α > 1

2p .

The number α satisfies (9) and (10) if and only if 3/4 < p ≤ 1. The proof of the theorem is complete.

Note that (8) can be found in Zygmund [23] or in Torchinsky [20], how- ever, (7) was known only for Walsh–Fourier series (see Weisz [21]).

5. (C, β) summability of one-dimensional trigonometric-Fourier series. In this section we generalize Theorem 2. For 0 < β ≤ 1 let

A β j :=

 j + β j



= (β + 1)(β + 2) . . . (β + j)

j! = O(j β ) (j ∈ N)

(see Zygmund [23]). The (C, β) means of a distribution f are defined by σ β n f := 1

A β n

X n k=0

A β−1 n−k s k f = f ∗ K n β

where the K j β kernel satisfies the conditions

|K j β (t) | ≤ C β

j β t β+1 (0 < |t| < π) and

\

T

|K j β (t) | dt = C β (j ∈ N)

(see Zygmund [23]). In case β = 1 we get the Ces`aro means.

The following result can be proved with the same method as Theorem 2.

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Theorem 3. If 0 < β ≤ 1 then there are absolute constants C and C p,q such that

k sup

n∈N

σ n β f k p,q ≤ C p,q kfk H p,q (f ∈ H p,q )

for every (β + 2)/2(β + 1) < p ≤ ∞ and 0 < q ≤ ∞. In particular, if f ∈ L 1

then

λ(sup

n∈N

σ β n f > γ) ≤ C

γ kfk 1 (γ > 0).

The latter weak type inequality implies the next convergence result.

Corollary 2. If 0 < β ≤ 1 and f ∈ L 1 then σ n β f → f a.e. as n → ∞.

We remark that this corollary can also be found in Zygmund [23].

6. Ces` aro summability of two-dimensional trigonometric- Fourier series. For f ∈ L 1 (T 2 ) and z := re ıx (0 < r < 1) let

u(z, y) = u(re ıx , y) := 1 2π

\

T

f (t, y)P r (x − t) dt and

u α (x, y) := sup

z∈Ω α (x) |u(z, y)| (0 < α < 1).

We say that f ∈ L 1 (T 2 ) is in the hybrid Hardy space H 1 (T 2 ) = H 1 if kfk H 1 := ku 1/2 k 1 < ∞.

The Fourier coefficients of a two-dimensional integrable function are de- fined by

f (n, m) = b 1 (2π) 2

\

T

\

T

f (x, y)e −ınx e −ıny dx dy.

We can introduce the Ces`aro means σ n,m f again as the arithmetic mean of the rectangle partial sums of the Fourier series of f and can prove that

σ n,m f = f ∗ (K n × K m ).

We generalize (8) in the following way.

Theorem 4. If f ∈ H 1 then λ( sup

n,m∈N |σ n,m f | > γ) ≤ C γ kfk H

1

(γ > 0).

P r o o f. Applying Fubini’s theorem, (8) and the positivity of K m (see

(5)) we have

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λ 

(x, y) : sup

n,m∈N

\

T

\

T

f (t, u)K n (x − t)K m (y − u) dt du > γ



≤ λ 

(x, y) : sup

m∈N

\

T

 sup

n∈N

\

T

f (t, u)K n (x − t) dt

 K m (y − u) du > γ 

=

\

T

\

T

1 {sup

m∈N T (sup n∈N | T f (t,u)K n (· −t) dt|)K m (· −u) du>γ} (x, y) dy dx

≤ C γ

\

T

\

T

sup

n∈N

\

T

f (t, y)K n (x − t) dt dy dx.

For a fixed y ∈ T we deduce by (7) that

\

T

sup

n∈N

\

T

f (t, y)K n (x − t) dt

dx ≤ C

\

T

u 1/2 (x, y) dx.

Theorem 4 follows from Fubini’s theorem.

Note that we can verify with the same method that the operator sup n,m∈N |σ n,m | is bounded from L p (T 2 ) to L p (T 2 ) if 1 < p ≤ ∞.

It is easy to show that the two-dimensional trigonometric polynomials are dense in H 1 . Hence Theorem 4 and the usual density argument (see Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund [14]) imply

Corollary 3. If f ∈ H 1 then

σ n,m f → f a.e. as min(n, m) → ∞.

Note that H 1 ⊃ L log L(T 2 ) by (2). Corollary 3 for L log L functions can be found in Zygmund [23], and, for Walsh–Fourier series in M´ oricz–Schipp–

Wade [15].

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Department of Numerical Analysis E¨ otv¨ os L. University

M´ uzeum krt. 6-8

H-1088 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: weisz@ludens.elte.hu

Received 18 June 1996;

revised 11 December 1996

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