On the weak-type constant of the Beurling-Ahlfors transform (Q1045744)

The authors discuss the Beurling--Ahlfors operator \(Bf(z)=\frac1{\pi} p.v. \int_{\mathbb C} f(w) (z-w)^{-2} d\mu(w)\) on the radial functional subspaces \(\{f\in L^p({\mathbb C}): f(r e^{i\theta})=H(r) e^{im \theta}\}\) for nonnegative integers \(m\) by investigation of the one-dimensional operators \(\Lambda_m g(u) = \frac{2m+2}{m+2} \int_0^1 g(uv^{2/(m+2)})dv - g(u)\). The authors prove that \(\Lambda_m\) is an \(L^2([0,\infty))\) isometry and \(\|B\| \geq \|\Lambda_m\|=1/\log 2\), where \(\|\cdot\|\) denote a weak-type norm.