Weak type \((1,1)\) of some operators for the Laplacian with drift (Q269860): Difference between revisions

This paper is devoted to the boundedness of some classical operators with respect to the Laplacian with drift. Let \(v=(v_1,\ldots,v_n)\) be a non-zero vector in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Define the Laplacian with drift \(\Delta_v=\sum_{i=1}^n(\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i^2}+2v_i\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i})\) and the measure \(d\mu(x)=e^{2\langle v,x\rangle}dx.\) Then it is well known that \(\Delta_v\) is self-adjoint with respect to \(\mu\). Let \(d\) be the Euclidean distance and \(\nabla\) the gradient operator on \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Then \((\mathbb{R}^n,d,\mu)\) is a metric space with exponential volume growth. In this paper, the authors obtain the weak type \((1,1)\) boundedness of the Riesz transform \(\nabla(-\Delta_v)^{-1/2}\) and the heat maximal operator with respect to \(\Delta_v\), as well as the \(L^p\) boundedness of the uncertered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator for \(p\in(1,\infty]\). One interesting phenomenon observed in this paper is that, different from the usual case, the uncertered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator is not of weak type \((1,1)\) if \(n\geq 2\) in the setting of the Laplacian with drift.