Potential operators in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces: two-weight estimates (Q623630)

The authors study two-weight estimates for potential and Hardy-type operators in variable exponent Lebesgue spaces \(L^{p(\cdot)}(X)\) in the setting of quasimetric measure spaces \((X,d,\mu)\). The potential operators are considered in the following two forms: \[ T_{\alpha(\cdot)} f(x)= \int_X \frac{f(y)\, d\mu(y)}{[\mu B(x,d(x,y))]^{1-\alpha(x)}}, \quad I_{\alpha(\cdot)} f(x)= \int_X \frac{f(y)\, d\mu(y)}{[d(x,y)]^{1-\alpha(x)}}, \] both of variable order \(\alpha(x).\) The variable exponent \(p(x)\) is supposed to be log-Hölder continuous and, in the case \(\operatorname{diam}X=\infty\), constant outside some big ball. The authors give various easily verifiable sufficient conditions for two-weight inequalities for these operators. Such inequalities are derived by means of the corresponding estimates for the Hardy-type operators over \(X\), which are also obtained in the paper. The authors effectively construct classes of examples of corresponding weights. Most of their conditions are necessary and sufficient when \(p\) is constant.