Georgian Math. J. 20 (2013), 805 – 816 DOI 10.1515 / gmj-2013-0037 © de Gruyter 2013 About integral operators of fractional type on variable L p spaces Pablo Rocha and Marta Urciuolo Abstract. If A 1 ;:::;A m are orthogonal matrices, in this paper we obtain strong and weak estimates for certain integral operators with kernels of the form k 1 .x A 1 y/  k m .x A m y/, in the context of Lebesgue spaces with variable exponents. Keywords. Variable exponents, fractional operators. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 42B25, 42B35. 1 Introduction Given a measurable set R n , and a measurable function p./ W ! Œ1; 1/, let L p./ ./ denote the Banach space of measurable functions f on such that for some >0, Z jf.x/j p.x/ dx < 1; with the norm kf k p./ D inf ° >0 W Z jf.x/j p.x/ dx 1 ± : These spaces are known as variable exponent spaces and are a generalization of the classical Lebesgue spaces L p ./. In the last years many authors have extended the machinery of classical harmonic analysis to these spaces. The first step was to determine sufficient conditions on p./ for the boundedness on L p./ of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator Mf .x/ D sup B 1 jB j Z B\ jf.y/jdy; where the supremum is taken over all balls B containing x. Let p D ess inf p.x/ and p C D ess sup p.x/. In [4], Cruz-Uribe, Fiorenza and Neugebauer prove the following result. The authors are partially supported by SECYTUNC and Conicet. Brought to you by | University of Calgary Authenticated Download Date | 5/26/15 3:08 PM