Local VMO and Weak Convergence in <i>h</i>¹ (Q4547560)

\textit{D. Sarason} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 207, 391-405 (1975; Zbl 0319.42006)] showed that the dual of VMO is \(H^1\). The author considers the local version of this theorem. Following \textit{D. Goldberg} [Duke Math. J. 46, 27-42 (1979; Zbl 0409.46060)], bmo\((R^n)\) is the space of locally integrable functions \(f\) on \(R^n\) satisfying \[ \sup_{|Q |<1} \frac{1}{|Q |} \int_Q |f(x) - f_Q |dx + \sup_{|Q |\geq 1} \frac{1}{|Q |} \int_Q |f(x) |dx < \infty . \] Let vmo\((R^n)\) be the closure of \(C_0(R^n)\) in bmo\((R^n)\). The author shows that the dual of vmo\((R^n)\) is the local Hardy space \(h^1(R^n)\) and also gives several characterizations of vmo\((R^n)\). This allows the study of weak-\(*\) convergence in \(h^1\) which is useful in the application of Hardy spaces to compensated compactness [\textit{R. Coifman, P. L. Lions, Y. Meyer} and \textit{S. Semmes}, J. Math. Pures Appl., IX. Ser. 72, No. 3, 247-286 (1993; Zbl 0864.42009)].