Fefferman-Garsia inequality
C. Fefferman [a3] discovered the remarkable fact that the space is none other than the "dual" of the Hardy space
in the sense of function analysis (cf. also Functional analysis; Hardy spaces; Duality;
-space). In establishing the above duality, Fefferman discovered the following "formal" inequality: if
and
, then
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The word "formal" is used here since does not necessarily have a finite Lebesgue integral. However, one can define
by setting
, since it has been proved that in this case
exists. Here,
and
,
,
a.s., are regular martingales. Later, A.M. Garsia [a4] proved an analogous inequality for
with
.
S. Ishak and J. Mogyorodi [a5] extended the validity of the Fefferman–Garsia inequality to all . In 1983, [a6], [a7], [a8], they also proved the following generalization: If
and
, where
is a pair of conjugate Young functions (cf. also Dual functions) such that
has a finite power, then
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where is a constant depending only on
and
stands for
, which exists.
It was proved in [a1], [a2] that the generalized Fefferman–Garsia inequality holds if and only if the right-hand side of the corresponding Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality holds.
References
[a1] | N.L. Bassily, "Approximation theory" , Proc. Conf. Kecksemet, Hungary, 1990 , Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai , 58 (1991) pp. 85–96 |
[a2] | N.L. Bassily, "Probability theory and applications. Essays in memory of J. Mogyorodi" Math. Appl. , 80 (1992) pp. 33–45 |
[a3] | C. Fefferman, "Characterisation of bounded mean oscillation" Amer. Math. Soc. , 77 (1971) pp. 587–588 |
[a4] | A.M. Garsia, "Martingale inequalities. Seminar notes on recent progress" , Mathematics Lecture Notes , Benjamin (1973) |
[a5] | S. Ishak, J. Mogyorodi, "On the generalization of the Fefferman–Garsia inequality" , Proc. 3rd IFIP-WG17/1 Working Conf. , Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science , 36 , Springer (1981) pp. 85–97 |
[a6] | S. Ishak, J. Mogyorodi, "On the ![]() |
[a7] | S. Ishak, J. Mogyorodi, "On the ![]() |
[a8] | S. Ishak, J. Mogyorodi, "On the ![]() |
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