Littlewood-Paley theory and ϵ-families of operators (Q4713541)

A fundamental result in Calderón-Zygmund theory is the celebrated T1- theorem of David and Journé. A major part of this paper is devoted to the study of versions of this theorem for general classes of operators and spaces. A brief description of the contents of this paper now follows. In Section 2 we give results on which our paper depends: 1) A description of the basic scales of spaces we study, the Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces; and their characterization by a family of convolution type operators, and also by developments as sums of smooth atoms. 2) An introduction to the notions of almost diagonal matrices, almost diagonal operators, and the notions of smooth molecules of the first and second kind. 3) A presentation of basic notions of Calderón-Zygmund operators and of the weak boundedness property. In Section 3 we present two versions of the T1-theorem for Besov spaces of order zero. In Section 4 we consider characterizations of the Triebel- Lizorkin and Besov spaces in terms of families of operators (\(\varepsilon\)-families) that are not necessarily convolution operators.