New estimates of the maximal Bochner-Riesz operator in the plane (Q2205559)

The main result of this article is about \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)\)-estimates of the maximal operator \(T_{\ast}^{\lambda}\) associated with the Bochner-Riesz multiplier operator. More precisely, the authors prove that if \(1<p<2\) and the subscript \(\lambda\) satisfies an accurate condition (see labeled condition (1.4)), then \(T_{\ast}^{\lambda}\) is bounded on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)\). This gives a slight improvement to an already known Tao's result [\textit{T. Tao}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 354, No. 5, 1947--1959 (2002; Zbl 0992.42003)] and the problem remains open for a certain region of \(\lambda\) (see region B in Fig. 1). The study of this problem is well understood in \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)\) for \(p\geq 2\) and \(n\geq 2\).