Note on local properties of the exponents and boundedness of Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator in variable Lebesgue spaces (Q2212208)

The authors study when the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator $M$ on a variable exponent Lebesgue space $L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)$, $1<a\le p(x)\le b<\infty$, is bounded. It is known that under a suitable asssumption on the behaviour of the exponent $p$ at infinity, sufficient condition on $p$ for $M$ to be bounded on $L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)$ is the local log-Hölder condition, that is, $$ |p(x)-p(y)|(-\ln|x-y|)\le C\text{ for all }x, y\in\mathbb R^n\text{ such that }|x-y|<1/2. $$ The aim of this note is to discuss how this log-Hölder condition might be weakened under certain symmetry assumption on $p$ so that boundedness of $M$ remains valid.