## Tag Archives: hardy space

### Compensated compactness

Suppose $T$ is a vector field and $\nabla\cdot T = 0$. $E= \nabla \psi$ and $\psi$ is a scalar function. We have following theorem(Coifman-Lions-Meyers-Semmes)

Theorem: If $T\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $T\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, then $E\cdot T\in \mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$, which is the hardy space.
Given $f(x)\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$, it has harmonic extension $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+=\{(x,t)|x\in\mathbb{R}^n, t>0\}$

$\tilde{f}(x,t)=c_n\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\frac{ f(x-y)t}{(t^2+|x|^2)^{\frac{n+1}{2}}}dy$

Definition: the non-tangential maximal function

$N(f)=\sup_{(\xi,t)\in \Gamma(x)}|\tilde f(\xi, t)|$

It is easy to prove that $N(f)\leq c_n f^*(x)$ the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function. From this we can Hardy norm as

$||f||_{\mathcal{H}^1}=||f||_{L^1}+||N(f)||_{L^1}$

Hardy space consists of all $f$ having finite hardy norm. There is well know fact that the dual space of $\mathcal{H}^1$ is BMO, which is defined as the following.

Define $f\in L^1_{loc}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, if for any cube $Q$,

$\sup_Q\frac{1}{|Q|}\int_Q|f-f_Q|<\infty,\quad \text{where }f_Q=\frac{1}{|Q|}\int_Qf$

then $f\in BMO$. $L^\infty \subset BMO$ and $\log|x|\in BMO$ but not in $L^\infty$.

Let us see how do we use the main theorem. Suppose on $\mathbb{R}^2$, $u$ is the solution of the following elliptic equation

$\displaystyle\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}\left(a_{ij}(x)\frac{\partial u}{\partial x_j}\right)=\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}\frac{\partial g}{\partial x_2}-\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_2}\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_2}$

where $||\nabla f||_{L^2}<\infty$, $||\nabla g||_{L^2}<\infty$ and $(a_{ij})$ is uniform elliptic. YanYan Li and Sagun Chanillo proved that the green function of this elliptic operator belongs to BMO. The right hand side of this equation can be rewritten as $T\cdot E$, where

$T=\left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_2}, -\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}\right),\quad E=\left(\frac{\partial g}{\partial x_1},\frac{\partial g}{\partial x_a}\right)$

therefore the right hand side belong to $\mathcal{H}^1$. Since

$u(x)=\int G_x(y)T\cdot E(y)dy$

therefore from the theorem we stated at the beginning, we get

$||u||_\infty\leq C||\nabla f||_{L^2}||\nabla g||_{L^2}$