INEQUALITIES FOR VECTOR-VALUED MAXIMAL FUNCTIONS OVER LOCALLY COMPACT VILENKIN GROUPS (Q4551900)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact Vilenkin group, that is a locally compact Abelian group containing a strictly decreasing sequence of compact open subgroups \(\{G_n,n \in\mathbb{Z}\}\), such that \(\cup_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}G_n=G\) and \(\cap_{n\in \mathbb{Z}} G_n=\{0\}\) and \(\sup\text \{{order }(G_n/G_{n+1}): n\in \mathbb{Z}\} <\infty\). The Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator \(M\) is defined by \[ Mf(x)= \sup_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}|G_n|^{-1} \int_{x+G_n} \bigl|f(y)\bigr |dy. \] It is known that \(M\) is of strong type \((p,p)\), \(1<p< \infty\), and is of weak type (1,1). The authors establish \((L^p,L^p)\) and weak (1,1) inequalities on vector-valued maximal functions on \(G\). These results are analogs of the classical theorems on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) by C. Fefferman and E. M. Stein. The authors also extended the above results on Lebesgue spaces to certain Herz-type spaces.