A note on the regularity of the two-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal function (Q1671181)

Summary: We investigate the regularity properties of the two-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. We point out that the above operator is bounded and continuous on the Sobolev spaces \(W^{s, p}(\mathbb{R}^2)\) for \(0 \leq s \leq 1\) and \(1 < p < \infty\). More importantly, we establish the sharp boundedness and continuity for the discrete two-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator from \(\ell^1(\mathbb{Z}^2)\) to \(\mathrm{BV}(\mathbb{Z}^2)\). Here \(\mathrm{BV}(\mathbb{Z}^2)\) denotes the set of all functions of bounded variation on \(\mathbb{Z}^2\).