Hardy's inequality in Orlicz-type sequence spaces, for operators related to generalized Hausdorff matrices (Q1070463)

This paper contains inequalities of the form \(\| Ax\| \leq C\| x\|\), in which \(A=(a_{n,r})\) is an infinite ''square'' matrix and \(x=(x_ n)\) is a column sequence. A recent inequality of this kind, due to \textit{D. Borwein} [Math. Z. 183, 483-487 (1983; Zbl 0508.40013)], has A a generalized Hausdorff matrix and \(\|.\|\) the \(\ell^ p\)-norm. It generalizes an earlier inequality of A. Jakimovski, B. E. Rhoades and J. Tzimbalario, which was itself a very substantial generalization of the original Hardy's inequality. The inequalities of this paper are for Orlicz-Luxemburg norms. They revolve around a theorem which, stated approximately (for brevity) is as follows. Theorem 1: Let \(k_ n>0\). For \(t\in I\) let \(\alpha\) (t) be non- decreasing, \(\gamma_{n,r}(t)\geq 0\), \(\sum^{\infty}_{r=0}\gamma_{n,r}(t)\leq 1\) and \(\sum^{\infty}_{r=0}(k_ r/k_ n)\gamma_{r,n}(t)\leq \beta (t)\). If \(\|.\|\) is an Orlicz-Luxemburg norm made from \(k_ n\) and \(\phi\) (t), \(0\leq a_{n,r}\leq \int_{I}\gamma_{n,r}(t)d\alpha (t)\) and \(C=\int_{I}\phi^{-1}(\beta (t))d\alpha (t),\) then \(\| Ax\| \leq C\| x\|\). Extensions of the inequality of Jakimovski, Rhoades and Tzimbalario, and of that of Borwein, are made using Theorem 1. Theorem 2 contains the former inequality as a special case; and Theorem 3 the latter, that is, Borwein's. Theorem 3 is the specialization of Theorem 1 in which \(k_ n\) is non-decreasing, \(I=[0,1]\), \(\beta (t)=\nu t^{-c}\) for suitable constants \(\nu\) and c, and \(a_{n,r}\leq (k_ r/k_ n)h_{n,r}\) where \((h_{n,r})\) is a generalized Hausdorff matrix.