Characterization of the Boundedness of the Discrete Fractional Maximal Operator Between Weighted Lorentz Sequence Spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we give the complete characterization of the boundedness of the discrete fractional maximal operator $M_\gamma $, defined on $\mathbb{Z}^n$, $n\in\mathbb{N}$, $\gamma\in [0,n)$, between the classical Lorentz sequence spaces $\lambda_p(v)$ and $\lambda_q(w)$, where $0<p,q<\infty$, $\{v(m)\}$ and $\{w(m)\}$ are non-negative sequences defined on $\mathbb{N}$. We first obtain a sharp upper estimate for the nonincreasing rearrangement of the discrete fractional maximal operator $M_\gamma x$, with a supremal operator involving a discrete Hardy operator and the nonincreasing rearrangement of the sequence $\{x(k)\}$, and we show that this estimate is sharp by showing a lower estimate for special sequences. Using this result, we can reduce the characterization of the boundedness of the discrete fractional maximal operator $ M_\gamma$ between the discrete weighted Lorentz sequence spaces to the boundedness of the discrete supremum operator between weighted Lebesgue sequence spaces, restricted to nonincreasing sequences. This problem was investigated in the recent paper by the authors, which enables us to obtain the final characterization.