Paley's inequality of integral transform type (Q1029963)

Let \(\{ n_k \}_{k=1}^{\infty}\) be a Hadamard sequence, i.e. a sequence of positive integers such that \(\frac{n_{k+1}}{n_k} \geq \rho\) with a constant \(\rho > 1\). For an analytic function \(F(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n z^n\) in the unit disc satisfying \(\sup_{0<r<1} \int_0^{2 \pi} | F(r e^{i \theta}) | d\theta < \infty\), the inequality \( \left( \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} | a_{n_k} |^2 \right)^{1/2} < \infty\) holds. This inequality is known as Paley's inequality. In this paper, an integral transform version of Paley's inequality is established. Let \(H^1(\mathbb{R})\) be the real Hardy space on the real line \(\mathbb{R}\). Then the space \(H^1(0,\infty)\) is defined as \(H^1(0,\infty) = \{ h/_{(0,\infty)} ; h \in H^1(\mathbb{R}), \mathrm{supp}(h) \subset [ 0, \infty ) \}\), where \([ 0,\infty)\) is the closed positive half line. This space is endowed with the norm \(| | f | |_{H^1(0,\infty)} = | | h | |_{H^1(\mathbb{R})}\), where \(h \in H^1(\mathbb{R})\) with \(\mathrm{supp}(h) \subset [ 0, \infty )\) and \(f=h/_{(0,\infty)} \). The main result of the paper is the following. Let \(\nu \geq -1/2\) and \(L>0\). Then, the Hankel transform \(H_{\nu}f\) of \(f \in H^1(0,\infty)\) defined as \(H_{\nu}f (y) = \int_0^{\infty} f(t) \sqrt{yt} J_{\nu}(yt) dt\) , \(y>0\), with \(J_{\nu}\) the Bessel function of the first kind of order \(\nu\), satisfies \(\left( \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \int_{n_k \leq y \leq n_k+L} | H_{\nu}f(y) |^2 dy \right)^{1/2} \leq C | | f | |_{H^1(0,\infty)}\), where \(C\) is independent of \(f\). Furthermore, the above result also holds in case of \(f \in L^p(0,\infty)\) with \(1<p \leq 2\).