1. Introduction
In this study, we analyse a maximal operator defined by a convex function $\gamma|_{[0,\infty)}$ and a measurable function $m:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$. Specifically, our focus lies on the operator:
where $\gamma:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is an extension of $\gamma|_{[0,\infty)}$, which is a even or odd function. Recently, Guo, Hickman, Lie and Roos [Reference Guo, Hickman, Lie and Roos13] proved the Lp boundedness of maximal operators $\mathcal{M}^{m}_{\gamma}$ for the homogeneous curve $\gamma(t) = t^n$, with $n \geqslant 2$, assuming that m is measurable. However, the Lp boundedness of $\mathcal{M}^{m}_{\gamma}$ for the case n = 1 remains an open problem. So, we focus on flat convex curves, including piecewise linear curves. Given a convex extension $\gamma:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, we define the bounded doubling property for a derivative $\gamma'$ as follows:
Now, we state the main theorem:
Main Theorem 1.
Let $m:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a measurable function such that $1\leqslant m(x)\leqslant 2$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$. Suppose that an extension γ of a convex function $\gamma|_{[0,\infty)}$ satisfies the bounded doubling property of $\gamma'$ in (1.1), with $\gamma(0)=0$. Then, there exists a constant Cω such that $\|\mathcal{M}^{m}_{\gamma}\|_{{L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}\rightarrow L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leqslant C_{\omega,p}$ holds for $1 \lt p\leqslant \infty$.
• The theorem can be extended to certain types of piecewise linear curves. Refer to Section 7 in [Reference Carbery, Christ, Vance, Wainger and Watson7] or Remark 5 in [Reference Kim14] for more details. Additionally, the condition (1.1) admits flat convex curves, such as $\gamma(t)=\text{e}^{-\frac{1}{|t|}}$ and $\text{e}^{-\text{e}^{\frac{1}{|t|}}}$, which are flat at the origin.
• By using the dilation technique, we can extend our results to $\|\mathcal{M}^{m}_{\gamma}\|_{{L^p}\rightarrow L^p}\leqslant C\log_{2}(\frac{b}{a})$ under the assumption $0 \lt a\leqslant m(x)\leqslant b$.
In the view of pointwise convergence, we can drop the assumption $1\leqslant m(x_1)\leqslant 2$.
Corollary 1.1. For a measurable function $m:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ and a convex extension γ on $\mathbb{R}^1$ passing through the origin with its derivative $\gamma'$ satisfying property (1.1), we have
for $f\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$.
The study of maximal operators along flat convex curves has a rich history in Harmonic analysis by itself. In the 1970s, Stein and Wainger [Reference Stein and Wainger24] asked the general class of curves $(t,\gamma(t))$ for which there are Lp results for $\mathcal{M}^{1}_{\gamma}$. In the 1980s, Carlsson $\textit{et al. }$ [Reference Carlsson, Christ, Córdoba, Duoandikoetxea, Rubio de Francia, Vance, Wainger and Weinberg11] proved that $\mathcal{M}^{1}_{\gamma}$ is bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$ under the bounded doubling condition (1.1). In the 1990s, the study of maximal operators was extended to the curves with a variable coefficient, as demonstrated in [Reference Bennett.4, Reference Carbery, Wainger and Wright9, Reference Carbery, Wainger and Wright10, Reference Kim15, Reference Seeger and Wainger23]. Carbery, Wainger and Wright [Reference Carbery, Wainger and Wright9] established the Lp boundedness of $\mathcal{M}^{x_1}_{\gamma}$ along plane curves γ whose derivative satisfies the infinitesimal doubling property. Under the same assumption, Bennett [Reference Bennett.4] extended the L 2 results for $\mathcal{M}^{P}_{\gamma}$, where P is a polynomial. As a corollary of our main theorem, we derive the Lp boundedness of $\mathcal{M}^{P}_{\gamma}$ under much weaker assumptions on γ.
Corollary 1.2. For a polynomial $P:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ with degree d and a convex extension γ on $\mathbb{R}^1$ passing through the origin with its derivative $\gamma'$ satisfying property (1.1), there exists a constant $C_{\omega, d}$ independent of the coefficients of P such that $\|\mathcal{M}^{P}_{\gamma}\|_{{L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}\rightarrow L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leqslant C_{\omega,d,p}$ for $1 \lt p\leqslant \infty$.
Note that the infinitesimal doubling property implies the bounded doubling property. For more details, refer to [Reference Bennett.4].
1.1. Historical background
Zygmund conjecture is a long-standing open problem in harmonic analysis. This question inquires whether the Lipschitz regularity of u is sufficient to guarantee any non-trivial Lp bounds for the maximal operator:
where $\gamma(t)=t$. Since the discovery of the Besicovitch set in the 1920s, it has been shown that the conjecture is false when the function u is only Hölder continuous C α with α < 1. However, the problem remains open under the Lipschitz assumption for u. In the 1970s, Stein and Wainger [Reference Stein and Wainger24] proposed an analogous conjecture for the Hilbert transform. Regarding the Hilbert transforms along vector fields, Lacey and Li [Reference Lacey and Li18] made a significant progress regarding the regularity of u in 2006, using time–frequency analysis tools. Later, Bateman and Thiele [Reference Bateman and Thiele2] obtained the Lp estimates for the Hilbert transform along a one-variable vector field. Their proof relied on the commutation relation between the Hilbert transform and Littlewood–Paley projection operators, which cannot be directly applied to the maximal operator $\mathcal{M}_{\gamma}^m$ due to its sub-linearity. Therefore, the problem for maximal operators remains open. For additional discussion on Stein’s conjecture, we recommend references [Reference Bateman1, Reference Bateman and Thiele2, Reference Lacey and Li17]. In the study of maximal operators, Bourgain [Reference Bourgain5] demonstrated the L 2 boundedness of $\mathcal{M}^{u}_{t}$ for real analytic functions u. In 1999, Carbery, Seeger, Wainger and Wright [Reference Carbery, Seeger, Wainger and Wright8] examined the maximal operators $\mathcal{M}_{t}^{m}$ along one variable vector field. One of the authors in this paper further extended this result in [Reference Kim16].
Recently, in [Reference Guo, Hickman, Lie and Roos13], Guo et al. investigated the Lp boundedness of $\mathcal{M}_{\gamma}^u$ under the Lipschitz assumption for u and homogeneous curve $\gamma(t)=t^n$ for n > 1. Later, Liu, Song and Yu [Reference Liu, Song and Yu20] extended the results to more general curves with the condition $\left|\frac{t\gamma''(t)}{\gamma'(t)}\right|\sim 1$. A crucial tool used in the proofs of both papers was the local smoothing estimate, which was established in [Reference Beltran, Hickman and Sogge3, Reference Mockenhaupt, Seeger and Sogge21]. For more history, we recommend the study [Reference Lie19] by Victor Lie, which presents a unified approach and includes a more general view of this topic as well as problems related to the concept of non-zero curvature.
1.2. Notation
Let $\psi:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a non-negative $C^{\infty}$ function supported on $[-2,2]$ such that $\psi\equiv 1$ on $[-1,1]$. Define $\varphi(t)=\psi(t)-\psi(2t)$ and $\varphi_l(t)=\frac{1}{2^l}\varphi(\frac{t}{2^l})$. Also, define $\psi^c(t)=1-\psi(t)$. Note that $\sum_{l\in \mathbb{Z}} \varphi\left(\frac{t}{2^l}\right)=1\ \text{for }t\neq0$ and $\text{supp}(\varphi)\subset\left\{\frac{1}{2}\leqslant|x|\leqslant2\right\}$. We define the Littlewood–Paley projection $\mathcal{L}_sf$ as $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_sf}(\xi):=\hat{f}(\xi){\varphi}\left(\frac{\xi_1}{2^s}\right)$. We shall use the notation $A\lesssim_d B$ when $A\leqslant C_dB$ with a constant $C_d \gt 0$ depending on the parameter d. Moreover, we write $A\sim_d B$, if $A\lesssim_d B$ and $B\lesssim_d A$. Let M HL be the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator and M str be the strong maximal operator. Let χA be a characteristic function, which is equal to 1 on A and otherwise 0. Denote the dyadic pieces of intervals by
and the corresponding strips by $S_i=I_i\times \mathbb{R}$, $\tilde{S}_i=\tilde{I}_i\times \mathbb{R}$.
2. Reduction
In this section, we present three propositions that have broad applicability. Let $\Gamma:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a measurable function and define a general class of operators
Proposition 2.1. Define $T_j^{\text{glo}}f(x_1,x_2):=\psi_{j+4}^c(x_1)T_jf(x_1,x_2)$. Under the measurability assumption of Γ, we have
for $1 \lt p\leqslant \infty$.
Proof. Denote that $\tilde{\varphi}(\frac{x}{2^j})=\sum_{k=-3}^{4}\varphi(\frac{x}{2^{j+k}})$, which has a localized support $|x|\sim 2^j$. Let $T_j^{\text{loc}}$ and $T_j^{\text{mid}}$ be operator, defined by
Then, we can decompose $T_j-T_j^{\text{glo}}$ into $T_j^{\text{mid}}+T_j^{\text{loc}}$. For the operator $T_j^{\text{mid}}$, replace the sup as $\ell^p$ sum. Then, we have
Denote $F(x_1)=\|f(x_1,\cdot)\|_{L^p(dx_2)}$. By applying Minkowski’s integral inequality and a change of variables, we get the pointwise inequality:
where the second inequality follows form the fact that $\Gamma(x_1,t)$ is independent of x 2. By (2.1) and the Lp boundedness of M HL, we obtain
which implies the Lp boundedness of $f\mapsto \sup_{j}|T_j^{\text{mid}}f|$ for p > 1. For the operator $T_j^{\text{loc}}f$, we observe the localization principle:
By combining this with $\sup_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}\|T_j\|_p \leqslant C$, we get the following estimate:
Therefore, we prove $\|\sup_{j}|T_j-T_j^{\text{glo}}|\|_p\leqslant C_p$ for $1 \lt p\leqslant \infty$.
By Proposition 2.1, in order to prove Theorem 1, it suffices to consider the maximal operator defined as
Proposition 2.2 (Space Reduction)
Let ${T}_{j}^{\ell}f(x_1,x_2):=\chi_{S_{\ell}}(x_1,x_2){T}_{j}^{\text{glo}}f(x_1,x_2)$. Then, the following inequality holds:
Proof. One can obtain (2.2) from the localization $T^{\ell}_jf(x_1,x_2)=T_j^{\ell}(\chi_{\tilde{{S_{\ell}}}}f)(x_1,x_2).$
Combining Proposition 2.1 and Proposition 2.2, we may restrict our attention to the maximal operator defined by $ f\mapsto \sup_j|T_j^{\ell}|$, supported on $|x_1|\sim 2^{\ell}\gg2^j$.
Proposition 2.3 (Frequency Reduction)
Suppose $\Gamma:\mathbb{R}\times [0,\infty)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is measurable on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with $\Gamma(x_1,0)=0$ satisfying the following conditions:
Let $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{low} }f}(\xi_1,\xi_2):=\hat{f}(\xi_1,\xi_2)\psi(2^j\xi_1)$ for $f\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^2)$. Then, there exists a constant C independent of Γ such that
where M i is the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator taken in the ith variable.
Proof. For $g\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^1)$ and $2^{j-1}\leqslant|t|\leqslant 2^{j+1}$, we have
where the second inequality follows form the convexity of $t\mapsto \Gamma(x_1,t)$. For more details, we refer to Lemma 2 in [Reference Cho, Hong, Kim and Woo Yang12] and [Reference Córdoba and Rubio de Francia6]. Since $T_j(\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{low}}f)(x_1,x_2)$ is a composition of the above two functions, we obtain the desired pointwise inequality.
Set $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{high}}f}(\xi_1,\xi_2)= \hat{f}(\xi_1,\xi_2)\psi^c(2^j\xi_1)$. Following Proposition 2.3, it is enough to show the estimate $\|\sup_j|T_j^{\ell}(\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{high}}f)|\|_p\lesssim \|f\|_p$.
3. Proof of main theorem 1
Following the reduction section, we only consider $\mathcal{T}_{j}^{\ell}(\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{high}}f)$, which is given by
supported on $|x_1|\sim 2^{\ell}\gg 2^j$.
3.1. Main difficulty
In a view of pseudo-differential operator, we write
with the symbol $b_j(x_1,\xi_1,\xi_2)$ given by
When analysing an oscillatory integral with a phase $t\xi_1+m(x_1)\gamma(t)\xi_2$, it is usual to decompose each frequency variable ξ 1 and ξ 2 with dyadic scale. Specifically, in the case of a homogeneous curve, we can even estimate the asymptotic behaviour of oscillatory integral. However, under the flat condition (1.1), this usual approach does not work, as there are no comparablity condition $\left|\frac{\gamma'(2t)}{\gamma'(t)}\right|\sim 1$ and a finite type assumption for the curve. To overcome this situation, we will perform an angular decomposition in [Reference Carlsson, Christ, Córdoba, Duoandikoetxea, Rubio de Francia, Vance, Wainger and Weinberg11] for a function f and utilize the method in one of the author’s paper [Reference Kim15].
3.2. Angular decomposition
Set
and
Note that we have the following Littlewood–Paley estimate in [Reference Carlsson, Christ, Córdoba, Duoandikoetxea, Rubio de Francia, Vance, Wainger and Weinberg11]:
We have $\mathcal{A}_{j}\mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{high}}f(x)=\mathcal{A}_{j}f(x)- \mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{low}}\mathcal{A}_{j}f(x)$. Then, it gives
from the pointwise estimate $|\mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{low}}f(x_1,x_2)|\lesssim M^1f(x_1,x_2)$. By the vector valued estimate for Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator, the following estimate holds:
We split $\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_{j}(\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{high}}f)$ into two terms:
Then, we shall prove the following:
We can obtain the estimate (3.2) for p = 2 from the following process:
Furthermore, the range of p can be extended by a bootstrap argument detailed in Section 3.4. In the following proposition, we focus particularly on the term $\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_{j}(\mathcal{A}_j^c\mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{high}}f)$ and prove the estimate (3.3). Furthermore, the range of p can be extended by a bootstrap argument detailed in Section 3.4. In the following proposition, we focus particularly on the term $\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_{j}(\mathcal{A}_j^c\mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{high}}f)$ and prove the estimate (3.3).
Proposition 3.1. Define the Littlewood–Paley projection $\widehat{\mathcal{L}_jf}(\xi_1,\xi_2):=\hat{f}(\xi_1,\xi_2)$$\varphi(\frac{\xi_1}{2^j})$ so that $\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_{j}(\mathcal{A}_j^c\mathcal{L}_{j}^{\text{high}}f)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_{j}(\mathcal{A}_j^c\mathcal{L}_{n-j}f)$. For $f\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$, It holds that
for $1 \lt p \lt \infty$ and $n\geqslant0$.
Note that we need the following:
Lemma 3.1 (Reduction to one variable operator)
Consider the two operators $\mathcal{R}_1$ and $\mathcal{R}^{\lambda}_2$, given by
for $f\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ and $g\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$. Then, $\|\mathcal{R}_1\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)\rightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leqslant\sup_{\lambda\in \mathbb{R}}\|\mathcal{R}^{\lambda}_2\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R})\rightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R})}$.
Proof of Lemma 3.1
Consider a function $f\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ with $\|f\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)}=1$. Denote $\mathcal{F}_2f(x_1,\xi_2)=g_{\xi_2}(x_1)$. By Plancheral’s theorem with respect to x 2, we get
which yields the desired estimate.
3.3. Proof of Proposition 3.1
We shall prove $\|\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_j\mathcal{L}_{n-j}\mathcal{A}_j^c\|_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)\rightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)}\lesssim 2^{-\frac{n}{2}}$, which implies
We write $\mathcal{T}^{\ell}_j\mathcal{L}_{n-j}\mathcal{A}_j^cf$ as
with symbol $a_j(x_1,\xi_1,\xi_2)$ given by
By Lemma 3.1, to prove (3.5), it suffices to show
where c 1 and c 2 are constants independent of j and λ and $\mathcal{R}^{\lambda}_jg(x):=\int \text{e}^{2\pi i x\xi}a_j(x,\xi,\lambda)\hat{g}(\xi)\text{d}\xi$ for $g\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$. Note that $x\in \mathbb{R}$ and $\xi\in \mathbb{R}$. Hereafter, we omit j and λ in operators for simplicity. Observe that we write $\mathcal{R}$ with kernel K
where
Recall that $|x|\sim 2^{\ell}\gg 2^j$ and denote
for each integer k. We define the functions
and use them to split the operator $\mathcal{R}$ as
Then, we shall prove the following:
Lemma 3.2. There exist constants C 1 and C 2 independent of $j, \ell$ and λ such that
Proof of (3.6)
Recall that
We build our proof upon the following observation:
Proof of (3.8)
Note that $supp(\psi^c)\subset \left\{|x| \gt \frac{1}{2}\right\}$. We utilize the integration by parts twice with respect to ξ. Then, we get
Since $|x-2^jt-y| \gt rsim |x-y|$ on $x\in Q_k$, $y\in \mathbb{R}\setminus Q_k'$ for $\frac{1}{2}\leqslant t\leqslant 2$, we get the desired estimate.
We shall deduce the following estimate:
Proof of (3.9)
By estimate (3.8) and the disjointness of Qks, we have
and the second estimate also holds by the similar way.
By Schur’s lemma with the estimate (3.9), we finish the proof of (3.6).
Proof of (3.7)
For the operator $\mathcal{B}_k$, denote $g_k(y)=\chi_{Q_k'}(y)g(y)$. By the localization principle, we have
To estimate $\|\mathcal{B}_kg_k\|_2$, we write it with the symbol expression again, which is
where
Observe that
Proof of (3.11)
From the support of $A^c_j(\xi,\lambda)$, we have $|\frac{\xi}{\lambda}|\nsim|\gamma'(2^jt)|$ for $|t|\sim1$. This enables us to apply the integration by parts with respect to variable t. Then, we get
Then, we get the desired estimate.
From the observation (3.11), it is easy to check
By Schur’s lemma with the above estimate and (3.10), we obtain (3.7) in Lemma 3.2.
3.4. A bootstrap argument for the proof of Theorem 1
In the spirit of Nagel, Stein and Wainger [Reference Nagel, Stein and Wainger22], we claim that
Lemma 3.3. If $\|\sup_{j}|\mathcal{T}_j^{\ell} f|\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leqslant C_1\|f\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)}$ and $\|\mathcal{T}_j^{\ell} f\|_{L^r(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leqslant C_2\|f\|_{L^r(\mathbb{R}^2)}$ for $1 \lt r \lt \infty$,
holds for all q with $\frac{1}{q} \lt \frac{1}{2}(1+\frac{1}{p})$.
Proof. Consider vector valued functions $\mathfrak{f}=\{f_j\}$ and $\mathfrak{Tf}=\{\mathcal{T}_j^{\ell}f_j\}$. Since the operator $\mathcal{A}_j$ is a positive, it follows that $\|\mathfrak{Tf}\|_{L^p({\mathbb{R}}^2,l^\infty)}\lesssim\|\mathfrak{f}\|_{L^p({\mathbb{R}}^2,l^\infty)}$ and $\|\mathfrak{Tf}\|_{L^r({\mathbb{R}}^2,l^r)}$ $\lesssim \|\mathfrak{f}\|_{L^r({\mathbb{R}}^2,l^r)}$ for r near 1. Applying the Riesz–Thorin interpolation for vector-valued function, we get the conclusion.
Combining (3.4), Proposition 2.3 and Proposition 3.1, we obtain the estimate
for p = 2. Moreover, we have
for r > 1. By using Lemma 3.3 with (3.13) and (3.14), we obtain (3.12) for $\frac{4}{3} \lt p\leqslant 2$. Then, by setting $\{f_j\}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}=\{\mathcal{A}_j^c\mathcal{L}_{n-j}f\}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}$ in (3.12) and applying interpolation with the decay estimate (3.5), we obtain Proposition 3.1 for $\frac{4}{3} \lt p\leqslant 2$. To treat the bad part in (3.4), set $\{f_j\}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}=\{\mathcal{A}_j\mathcal{L}_j^{\text{high}}f\}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}$. Then, we apply Lemma 3.3 again to get the first inequality of (3.4), which implies (3.13) for $\frac{4}{3} \lt p\leqslant 2$. We can iteratively apply Lemma 3.3 with a wider range of p until we get (3.13) for all p > 1. With this, we complete the proof of Main Theorem 1.
4. Application
In this section, we shall prove Corollary 1.1 and Corollary 1.2.
4.1. Proof of Corollary 1.1
For a measurable function $m:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, denote that
By Main Theorem 1 and the second part of Remark 1.1, one can easily check that
To prove Corollary 1.1, it suffices to show that for each α > 0 and $k\in \mathbb{Z}$, the set
has measure zero. Consider a continuous function gɛ of compact support with $\|f-g_{\varepsilon}\|_p \lt ~\varepsilon$. One can see that $\limsup_{r\rightarrow0}|S_r^mf(x_1,x_2)-f(x_1,x_2)|\leqslant \mathcal{M}_{\gamma}^{m}(f-g_{\varepsilon})(x)+|g_{\varepsilon}(x)-f(x)|.$ For $F_{\alpha}^k$ and $G_{\alpha}^k$, defined by
we have $m(E_{\alpha}^k)\leqslant m(F_{\alpha}^k)+m(G_{\alpha}^k)$. Applying estimate (4.1), we get
As $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$, we get the conclusion.
4.2. Proof of Corollary 1.2
In order to achieve our goal of removing the dependence of the coefficients of polynomial P on factors other than its degree, we consider the following lemma.
Lemma 4.1. Given a polynomial P with degree d, we can find a partition $\{s_0,s_1,s_2,\dots,s_{n(d)}\}$ such that for each interval $[s_i,s_{i+1}]$, there exists a pair $(m_i,s_{j_i})$ with $1\leqslant m_i\leqslant d$, satisfying
Proof of Lemma 4.1
We seek to construct a partition $\mathcal{P} = \{s_1, s_2, ..., s_{n(d)}\}$ of $(-\infty,\infty)$ such that, for each subinterval $[s_i, s_{i+1}]$, there exist non-negative integers mi and ji satisfying (4.2). Consider a polynomial P(x) represented by the following expression:
where αi are distinct real numbers. Let $U_i=\{x\in\mathbb{R}: |x-\alpha_i| \lt |x-\alpha_k| \text{ for all } k=1,\dots,d_1\}$. For each i and k, let $\mathcal{U}_i^{k}(1)=\{x\in U_i:2|x-\alpha_i|\geqslant |x-\alpha_k| \}$ and $\mathcal{U}_i^{k}(0)=\{x\in U_i:2|x-\alpha_i| \lt |x-\alpha_k| \}$. Then, for any $x\in \mathbb{R}$, there exists an index i such that $x\in U_i$. We define the set-valued function Fi on $\{0,1\}^{d_1}$ by $F_i(a)=\bigcap_{k=1}^{d_1}\mathcal{U}_{i}^k(a_k)$ for $a=(a_k)\in\{0,1\}^{d_1}$. By using the set-valued function F, we can decompose each set Ui into a finite number of disjoint open intervals, that is,
For each interval $F_i(a)=[s_i,s_{i+1}]$, we take $m=\sum_{\{k:a_k=1\}}q_k$ and $s_{j_i}=\alpha_i$. Observe that we have the following inequalities for each fixed i:
By using these observation, we have (4.2) on $[s_i,s_{i+1}]$.
To handle a general polynomial, we can employ a similar approach. First, we can express the polynomial as
To treat this, we give one more criterion comparing between $2|x-\alpha_i|$ and $\max\{|x-\beta_k|,|\delta_k|\}$ instead of $|x-\alpha_k|$. Then. the last part can be proved similarly.
Proof of the Corollory 1.2
Given a polynomial P(x), we obtain a partition $\mathcal{P}=\{s_0,s_1,\dots,s_{n(d)}\}$ from Lemma 4.1. We then decompose $\mathcal{M}_{\gamma}^{P}f(x)$ as
where $\mathcal{M}_{i}f(x):=\chi_{[s_i,s_{i+1}]}(x)\mathcal{M}_{\gamma}^{P}f(x)$. To complete the proof, it suffices to demonstrate that
By Lemma 4.1, there exists a pair $(m_i,s)$ such that the following holds for $[s_{i},s_{i+1}]$:
Denote that $g_s(x_1,x_2):=f(x_1+s ,x_2)$ and consider the estimate
By applying Proposition 2.2, we can reduce matters to $|x_1|\sim 2^{\ell}$:
where $\mathcal{P}_{j}^{\ell}g_s(x)$ is defined as
for $\ell$ such that $[2^{\ell-1},2^{\ell+1}]\cap [s_i-s,s_{i+1}-s]\neq \emptyset$. To prove (4.3), it is enough to check the hypothesis of Remark 1.1:
where $1\leqslant m_i\leqslant d$. This implies the conclusion.
Acknowledgements
J. Kim was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea under grant NRF-2015R1A2A2A01004568. J. Oh was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea under grant NRF-2020R1F1A1A01048520 and is currently supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (RS-2024-00461749).