Maximal operators on Lorentz spaces in non-doubling setting (Q2043084)

In the paper under review the author deals with the mapping properties of the centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator acting on Lorentz spaces \(L^{p,q}(\mathcal{X})\) in the context of certain non-doubling metric measure spaces \(\mathcal{X}\). The author introduced an appropriate class of metric measure spaces which provides the opportunity to generate a lot of examples (Theorem 1 and Theorem 2), showing explicitly various behaviors of these operators in this context. In particular, for each \(p_0, q_0, r_0 \in (1, \infty)\) with \(r_0 \geq q_0\) they construct a space \(\mathcal{X}\) for which the associated operator is bounded from \(L^{p_0 ,q_0} (\mathcal{X})\) to \(L^{p_0 ,r} (\mathcal{X})\) if and only if \(r \geq r_0\). To construct such spaces, the author uses the space combining technique (Proposition 1), which is an improved version of the method used in [\textit{D. Kosz}, Forum Math. 31, No. 3, 785--801 (2019; Zbl 1417.42023)] in the context of modified Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators. The paper and the references give a very good introduction to the known results and a host of comments which help the reader to focus on the necessary technical details and a very helpful overview of the literature on the subject.