Rearrangements of functions on a locally compact abelian group and integrability of the Fourier transform (Q1355459)

This is a far reaching generalisation and unification of numerous previous results concerning the hull-kernel problem going back to Hardy-Littlewood. Denote by \(G\) a locally compact abelian group and by \(\Gamma\) its dual. If \(R\) is an equivalence relation in a space of functions \(L\) on \(G\), say measurable functions, and if \(A\subset L\), then the \(R\)-hull of \(A\) (\(R\)-kernel of \(A\)) is the smallest (the largest) \(R\)-invariant set in \(L\) containing (contained in) \(A\). Throughout the paper \(A\) is the inverse image under the Fourier transform of a Lorentz space on \(\Gamma\) and \(R\) is one of several (five) variations on the notion of equimeasurability, e.g., \(fRg\) if \(|f|\) and \(|g|\) are equimeasurable. An almost exhaustive list of hulls and kernels corresponding to Lorentz spaces \(L(p,q)\), \(1<p<\infty\), \(1\geq q\geq\infty\), and to five variants of the equimeasurability relation is established. The list includes all previously known results of Hardy-Littlewood, Hunt, Hewitt-Ross, Cereteli, Kalton, the author and others.