Tόhoku Math. J. 44(1992), 201 210 ESTIMATES FOR OPERATORS IN WEIGHTED //^ SPACES SALAH A. A. EMARA (Received March 4, 1991, revised August 5, 1991) Abstract. We give conditions on pairs of weight functions for which a certain operator defined onzyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA Ω ^R 2 + is bounded between weighted Lorentz spaces. The result is applied to obtain weighted estimates for the Laplace transform. Introduction. Let / and w be nonnegative functions on R + . Then the distribution function of / relative to the measure w(x)dx is defined by f w (s)=\ w(x)dx = w({x:\f(x)\>s}), J{x:\ f( x) \ > s) where s>0 and the decreasing rearrangement of |/ 1 relative to w(x)dx is obtained by f w (ή = inf{s:f w (s)<t}(see e.g. [4; 6, Chapter V]). Further if 0</?, q<oo, then the weighted Lorentz spaces L p ' q (yή are defined by where (i) II/I (Φ)\ ί t^r(t)γr'dt\ , 0<p, o sup t lίp f w (t) , 0 <p< oo , q= oo . ί>0 In case either 1 <p<co and l<q<oo or p = q=oo, L PA (w) is a Banach space with norm equivalent to the quasi norm ||/ || LP , g(w) . Clearly if w=\ then L p ' q (w) = L p ' q , where L PΛ are the usual Lorentz spaces. We denote by L P W {Ω ), 0</?<oo, the space of weighted measurable functions / for which II / lli£(β) = II W^/HLP^) is finite, where || || LP(β) denotes the usual Lebesgue norm. Note If 1</7<OO, 1<#<OO and 1//?+ l/ p'= l = l/ q+l/ q f , then (2) C 'WfW^^Ksup fgwdx <C\ \ f\ \ LP , q 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 26D10; Secondary 42B10, 46E30. Research supported in part by The American University in Cairo.