A note on the Kakeya maximal function
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A note on the Kakeya maximal function
zbMATH Open document ID: 0657.42017
DOI: 10.1007/BF01200228
author: Detlef Müller
published in: Archiv der Mathematik
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author presents a proof of an estimate for the Kakeya maximal function in two dimensions which is slightly more complicated then the original proof of Cordoba but which gives a sharp bound and has the possibilities of extension to higher dimensions. The Kakeya maximal function is defined as follows. A rectangle R in \(R^ n\) has dimension \(\xi\) \(\times N\delta\) if there is a motion of \(R^ n\) that maps R onto \([0,\delta]^{n-1}\times [0,N\delta]\). Denote the collection of \(\xi\) \(\times \delta N\) rectangles by \({\mathcal B}_{\delta,N}\), and the union of all such over \(\delta >0\) by \({\mathcal B}_ N\). The Kakeya maximal function is \[ M_ Nf(x)=\sup_{x\in R\in {\mathcal B}_ N}\frac{1}{| R|}\int_{R}| f(y)| dy, \] and it is usually studied by means of \[ M_{\delta,N}f(x)=\sup_{x\in R\in {\mathcal B}_{\delta,N}}\frac{1}{| R|}\int_{R}| f(y)| dy. \] \textit{A. Cordoba} [Am. J. Math. 99, 1-22 (1977; Zbl 0384.42008)] proved that \(M_ N\) is bounded on \(L^ 2\) with a bound that grows like (log N)\({}^ 2\) by showing that \(\| M_{\delta,N}f\|_ 2\leq C(\log 2N)^{1/2}\| f\|_ 2.\) The author gives an alternate proof of this fact and notes that \(\| M_{\delta,N}f\|_ n\geq c(\log N)^{(n-1)/n}\| f\|_ n\) for suitable f.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42B25
zbMATH DE Number: 4073683
zbMATH Keywords: Kakeya maximal function
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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