Criteria for the boundedness and compactness of operators with power-logarithmic kernels (Q700362)

Consider numbers \(1<p\leq q<\infty\), \(\alpha>1/p\), \(\beta>0\) and \(a>0\). The authors consider the operator \(I_{\alpha,\beta}\) defined on \(L^p(0,a)\) by \[ I_{\alpha,\beta}f(x)=\int_0^x(x-t)^{\alpha-1}\ln^\beta(\gamma/(x-t))f(t) dt. \] They show that this operator is bounded from \(L^p(0,a)\) to \(L^q(0,a;\nu)\) (here \(\nu\) is a finite Borel measure on \((0,a)\)) if and only if the quantity \(\sup_{0<t<a}(\int_{[t,a)}x^{q(\alpha-1)}\ln^{\beta q}(2\gamma/x) d\nu(x))^{1/q}t^{(p-1)/p}\) is finite. This quantity is then equivalent to the norm of the operator. A similar result is proved for the formally dual operator.