Sunrise strategy for the continuity of maximal operators

Abstract

In this paper we address the W 1,1 -continuity of several maximal operators at the gradient level. A key idea in our global strategy is the decomposition of a maximal operator, with the absence of strict local maxima in the disconnecting set, into "lateral" maximal operators with good monotonicity and convergence properties. This construction is inspired in the classical sunrise lemma in harmonic analysis. A model case for our sunrise strategy considers the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator M acting on W 1,1 rad (R d ), the subspace of W 1,1 (R d ) consisting of radial functions. In dimension d ≥ 2 it was recently established by H. Luiro that the map f → ∇ M f), and we show that such map is also continuous. Further applications of the sunrise strategy in connection with the W 1,1 -continuity problem include nontangential maximal operators on R d acting on radial functions when d ≥ 2 and general functions when d = 1, and the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator on the sphere S d acting on polar functions when d ≥ 2 and general functions when d = 1.

Continuity of the gradient of the fractional maximal operator on $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$

“…Positive results under a radial assumption on f were obtained by the first and third authors in both the non-centered [2] and centered case [3]. We refer to [7,5,10,17] for complementary results regarding the continuity of M .…”