Local Hardy spaces with variable exponents associated with non-negative self-adjoint operators satisfying Gaussian estimates (Q2187715)

The authors define and investigate variable exponent local Hardy spaces \(h_L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\), associated with a self-adjoint non-negative, possibly unbounded on \(L^2(\mathbb R^n)\), operator \(L\). Here \(p\colon \mathbb R^n\to (0,\infty)\), a variable exponent, is a measurable function separated from zero and infinity, and \(L\) is such that the semigroup \(\{e^{-tL}\}_{t>0}\) consists of operators with kernels satisfying upper Gaussian bounds. Lebesgue, Sobolev, Lorentz, and (local and global) Hardy spaces with variable exponents have recently been studied by several authors. Also variable exponent (global) Hardy spaces associated with non-negative self-adjoint operators have been studied in the last years. In the paper under review the local Hardy spaces \(h_L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\) are defined by using the area square function based on the semigroup \(\{e^{-tL}\}_{t>0}\). The main result of the paper, Theorem 1.1, under an additional assumption on \(p(x)\) establishes a molecular characterization of the space \(h_L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\). In the specific case when \(0\) is not in the spectrum of \(L\), as an important consequence of this characterization it follows that \(h_L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\) coincides with the global Hardy space \(H_L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\). This result is included in Theorem 1.5.