The modular inequalities for a class of convolution operators on monotone functions (Q4372274)

An \(N-\)function \(\Phi\) is said to satisfy the \(\Delta_2\) condition if there is a constant \(B>0\) such that \(\Phi(2t)\leq B\Phi(t)\) for all \(t>0\). Let both \(\Phi_1\) and its complementary function satisfy the \(\Delta_2\) condition and \(\Phi_1\ll\Phi_2\) which means that there is a constant \(L_0>0\) such that \(\sum\Phi_2\circ\Phi_1^{-1}(a_i)\leq L_0\Phi_2\circ\Phi_1^{-1} \big(\sum a_i\big)\) holds for every nonnegative sequence \(\{a_i\}\). The author characterized the weights \(a,\;w,\;v\) for which the modular inequality \[ \Phi_2^{-1}\Big(\int^\infty_0\Phi_2(a(x)Kf(x))w(x) dx\Big) \leq \Phi_1^{-1}\Big(\int^\infty_0\Phi_1(Cf(x))v(x) dx\Big) \] holds for all nonnegative monotone functions \(f\), where \(C\) is a constant and \(K\) is a Volterra convolution operator with the kernel satisfying some restrictions. The author's results are even new on Orlicz spaces when \(K\) is the Hardy operator.