Description
Singular integral operators play the central part in modern harmonic analysis. Simplest examples of singular kernels are given by Calderón–Zygmund kernels. Many important properties of singular integrals have been thoroughly studied for Calderón–Zygmund operators.
In the ’80s and early ’90s, Coifman, Weiss, and Christ noticed that the theory of Calderón–Zygmund operators can be generalized from Euclidean spaces to spaces of homogeneous type. The purpose of this book is to make the reader believe that homogeneity (previously considered as a cornerstone of the theory) is not needed. This claim is illustrated by presenting two harmonic analysis problems famous for their difficulty.
The first problem treats semiadditivity of analytic and Lipschitz harmonic capacities. The volume presents the first self-contained and unified proof of the semiadditivity of these capacities. The book details Tolsa's solution of Painlevé's and Vitushkin's problems and explains why these are problems of the theory of Calderón–Zygmund operators on nonhomogeneous spaces. The exposition is not dimension-specific, which allows the author to treat Lipschitz harmonic capacity and analytic capacity at the same time.
The second problem considered in the volume is a two-weight estimate for the Hilbert transform. This problem recently found important applications in operator theory, where it is intimately related to spectral theory of small perturbations of unitary operators.
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Chapter
Chapter 2. Preliminaries on Capacities
Chapter 3. Localization of Newton and Riesz Potentials
3.2. A building block for the construction of special measures
3.3. Localization on special cubes
3.4. Modification of distribution S. Construction of auxiliary measures
3.6. The principal estimate for auxiliary measures
Chapter 4. From Distribution to Measure. Carleson Property
Chapter 5. Potential Neighborhood that has Properties (3.13)–(3.14)
5.1. Capacities with Calderon-Zygmund (CZ) kernels
5.2. Variational capacity and extremal measures
5.3. L[sup(p)] theory of nonhomogeneous CZ operators. Measure of order m
5.4. Riesz and Cauchy kernels: γ[sub(+)] = γ[sub(op)]
5.5. Cauchy kernel and analytic capacity
Chapter 6. The Tree of the Proof
Chapter 7. The First Reduction to Nonhomogeneous Tb Theorem
Chapter 8. The Second Reduction
8.2. From real-valued kernel to vector valued kernel
8.3. From one lattice to two lattices
Chapter 9. The Third Reduction
Chapter 10. The Fourth Reduction
10.1. μ, b, D, η decomposition
10.2. Good functions and bad functions
10.3. Estimates of nonhomogeneous Calderón-Zygmund operators on good functions
10.4. The reduction of Theorem 9.1 to estimates of nonhomogeneous Calderón-Zygmund operator, namely to Theorem 10.6
Chapter 11. The Proof of Nonhomogeneous Cotlar's Lemma. Arbitrary Measure
Chapter 12. Starting the Proof of Nonhomogeneous Nonaccretive Tb Theorem
12.1. Terminal and transit cubes
12.2. Projections Λ and Δ[sub(Q)]
Chapter 13. Next Step in Theorem 10.6. Good and Bad Functions
13.1. Good functions and bad functions again
13.2. Reduction to estimates on good functions
13.3. Splitting 〈T[sub([omitted]good, ψgood)〉 to three sums
13.4. Three types of estimates of ∫ k(x, y)f(x)g(y) dμ,(x) dμ(y)
13.5. Estimate of long range interaction sum σ[sub(2)]
13.6. Short range interaction sum σ[sub(3)]. Nonhomogeneous paraproducts
Chapter 14. Estimate of the Diagonal Sum. Remainder in Theorem 3.3
14.1. Estimate of ∑[sub(term)]
14.2. Estimate of ∑[sub(tr)]
Chapter 15. Two Weight Estimate for the Hilbert Transform. Preliminaries
Chapter 16. Necessity in the Main Theorem
Chapter 17. Two Weight Hilbert Transform. Towards the Main Theorem
17.1. Bad and good parts of f and g
17.2. Estimates on good functions
Chapter 18. Long Range Interaction
Chapter 19. The Rest of the Long Range Interaction
Chapter 20. The Short Range Interaction
20.1. The estimate of neighbor-terms
20.2. The estimate of stopping terms
20.3. The choice of stopping intervals
Chapter 21. Difficult Terms and Several Paraproducts
21.2. Two more paraproducts
21.3. Second paraproduct: miraculous improvement of the Carleson property
Chapter 22. Two-Weight Hilbert Transform and Maximal Operator