Singular Integrals

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200 Umberto Neri University of Maryland, College Park, MD/USA

Singular Integrals

Spri nger-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg· New York 1971

AMS Subject Classifications (1970): 46E 35, 47G 05

ISBN 3-540-{)5502-9 Springer-Verlag Berlin . Heidelberg . New York ISBN 0-387-05502-9 Springer-Verlag New York . Heidelberg· Berlin

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f ~dt. x-t

I x::tl >s

This singular integral (or principal value integral) arose in the study of boundary values of analytic functions. We have two kinds of problems here. I.

Existence of f(xl.

II. Relationship between f and kept by

f?

f:

that is, what properties of fare

2

PRELIMINARIES

Let x

=

(Xl' •.. ,X ) ~ En, where En is Euclidean n-dimensional n

space, with Lebesgue measure dx

Ox , .. dx • All sets and functions n 1

=

considered will be Lebesgue measurable. If f(x) function defined a.e. sider the integral

f S

If we set f(x)

o

is a measurable

(almost everywhere) on a set SeEn, we con-

fix) dx

=

f S

f(x , ... 1

,X

n

)

dx " .. dx • 1

n

J

outside S, we may write the integral as

J

f(x)dx

=

En

f(x)dx

where the domain of integration is understood to be the entire space En.

n

(~x~

Letting Ixl

1

~

)1/2 denote the norm of x, consider the

integrals

The integrands may have trouble at 0 and at infinity, so we split the integral into two parts:

f I

j

I xl ~1

xl ~1

dx ~.

Letting r = I xl , the element of volume dx can be written in "polar coordinates" as dx the unit sphere ~

= =

n 1 r - do-dr, where do-

{x:lxl

=

is the surface element on

1}. Thus,

r

n-l r

a

1

dr C

~

r

n-a-l

dr
0, that is a < n.

(Here the constant C is the

area of the unit sphere). On the other hand,

r

a

n, then 11

With 1 LP

=

LP (En)

~

=

P < {f:

00,

12

=

r

dr

n-a-1

dr
n.

and only if n - a < 0, that is If

n-a-1

= 00.

we consider the Banach spaces

SI f (xl I Pdx < co},

wher the functions f are measurable

and complex-valued (in general), and two functions are identified if they coincide a.e.

The norm

Triangle Ineguality:

Ilf + gllp

~

Holder's Ineguality:

Ijfg dxl

~ Ilfllpllgll "

IIfllp + IIgli

p

(Minkowski). Also, we have where p > 1

p

and

p', the

conjugate exponent of p, is defined by the relation 1

P

Ifp

+

!

p'

1.

1, then Holder's inequality holds with p' Ilg

1100

=

= 00,

where we set

ess sup I g (x) I = the least number M ) 0 such that Ig(xll

> M only on a set of measure

zero