Journal of Inequalities and Applications 
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 4, Pages 387-394
doi:10.1155/JIA.2005.387

Weighted inequalities for the Sawyer two-dimensional Hardy operator and its limiting geometric mean operator

Anna Wedestig

Department of Mathematics, Luleå University, Luleå 97 187, Sweden

Received 3 November 2003

Abstract

We consider Tf=0x10x2f(t1,t2)dt1dt2 and a corresponding geometric mean operator Gf=exp(1/x1x2)0x10x2logf(t1,t2)dt1dt2. E. T. Sawyer showed that the Hardy-type inequality TfLuqCfLvp could be characterized by three independent conditions on the weights. We give a simple proof of the fact that if the weight v is of product type, then in fact only one condition is needed. Moreover, by using this information and by performing a limiting procedure we can derive a weight characterization of the corresponding two-dimensional Pólya-Knopp inequality with the geometric mean operator G involved.