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Title: The weak-type Carleson theorem via wave packet estimates
We prove that the weak- L p L^{p} norms, and in fact the sparse ( p , 1 ) (p,1) -norms, of the Carleson maximal partial Fourier sum operator are ≲<#comment/> ( p −<#comment/> 1 ) −<#comment/> 1 \lesssim (p-1)^{-1} as p →<#comment/> 1 + p\to 1^+ . This is an improvement on the Carleson-Hunt theorem, where the same upper bound on the growth order is obtained for the restricted weak- L p L^p type norm, and which was the strongest quantitative bound prior to our result. Furthermore, our sparse ( p , 1 ) (p,1) -norms bound imply new and stronger results at the endpoint p = 1 p=1 . In particular, we obtain that the Fourier series of functions from the weighted Arias de Reyna space Q A ∞<#comment/> ( w ) \mathrm {QA}_{\infty }(w) , which contains the weighted Antonov space L log ⁡<#comment/> L log ⁡<#comment/> log ⁡<#comment/> log ⁡<#comment/> L ( T ; w ) L\log L\log \log \log L(\mathbb T; w) , converge almost everywhere whenever w ∈<#comment/> A 1 w\in A_1 . This is an extension of the results of Antonov [Proceedings of the XXWorkshop on Function Theory (Moscow, 1995), 1996, pp. 187–196] and Arias De Reyna, where w w must be Lebesgue measure. The backbone of our treatment is a new, sharply quantified near- L 1 L^1 Carleson embedding theorem for the modulation-invariant wave packet transform. The proof of the Carleson embedding relies on a newly developed smooth multi-frequency decomposition which, near the endpoint p = 1 p=1 , outperforms the abstract Hilbert space approach of past works, including the seminal one by Nazarov, Oberlin and Thiele [Math. Res. Lett. 17 (2010), pp. 529–545]. As a further example of application, we obtain a quantified version of the family of sparse bounds for the bilinear Hilbert transforms due to Culiuc, Ou and the first author.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2054863
PAR ID:
10612871
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Mathematical Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume:
378
Issue:
1090
ISSN:
0002-9947
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1551 to 1592
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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