Boundedness of sublinear operators in Hardy spaces on RD-spaces via atoms (Q2465173)

It is known that there exist functions \(f\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\) whose norm cannot be achieved by its finite atomic decompositions via \((1,\infty)\)-atoms, there exist linear functionals on a dense subset of \(H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\) which map all \((1,\infty)\)-atoms into bounded scalars, but yet cannot extend to bounded linear functionals on the whole \(H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\), and thus to guarantee the boundedness of a linear operator \(T\) from \(H^p(\mathbb{R}^n)\), \(0<p\leq 1\), to some quasi-Banach space \(\mathfrak{B}\), it is not sufficient to prove that it maps all \((p,\infty)\)-atoms into uniformly bounded elements of \(\mathfrak{B}\). Motivated by these facts, in their recent paper [Constr. Approx. 29, No. 2, 207--218 (2009; Zbl 1283.42029)], the authors established a boundedness criterion in terms of \((p,2)\)-atoms in the Euclidean setting. In this paper they extend this result to RD-spaces, defined as homogeneous spaces \((\mathcal{X},d,\mu)\) with the property \[ C_2\lambda^k \mu(B(x,r))\leq \mu(B(x,\lambda r)) C_1\lambda^n \mu(B(x,r)), \;\;0<k\leq n, \] where \(0<r<\frac{\text{diam}\,\mathcal{X}}{2}, \;1\leq \lambda <\frac{\text{diam}\,\mathcal{X}}{2r}.\)