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In this paper, we propose a new type of matrix-weighted theory and show the corresponding Rubio de Francia extrapolation theorems by means of noncommutative maximal inequalities. We introduce a new matrix ApA_p condition following Volberg's geometric formulation, and characterize it via a noncommutative Hardy–Littlewood maximal inequality. We then establish a noncommutative analogue of Rubio de Francia's abstract extrapolation theorem for trace-finite von Neumann algebras. The argument extends to L∞(R)⊗ˉMd(C)L_\infty(\mathbb R)\bar\otimes M_d(\mathbb C) through pointwise matrix operations. This yields the desired extrapolation results for individual operators and maximal families, with applications to matrix-weighted boundedness of Calderón–Zygmund operators.

Introduction

Weighted norm inequalities are a central part of modern harmonic analysis. On the real line, we say a function w:R→R+w:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}_+ is a scalar weight if it is positive, measurable and locally integrable. Given 1≤p<∞1\le p<\infty and a weight ww, the weighted LpL_p-norm is

∥f∥Lp(w):=(∫R∣f(t)∣pw(t) dt)1/p.\|f\|_{L_p(w)}:=\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}}|f(t)|^p w(t)\,dt\right)^{1/p}.

For 1<p<∞1<p<\infty, the Muckenhoupt class Ap(R)A_p(\mathbb{R}) is characterized by

[w]Ap=sup⁡I⊂R⟨w⟩I⟨w−p′/p⟩Ip/p′<∞,⟨w⟩I=1∣I∣∫Iw(t) dt,[w]_{A_p}=\sup_{I\subset\mathbb{R}}\langle w\rangle_I\langle w^{-p'/p}\rangle_I^{p/p'}<\infty,\qquad\langle w\rangle_I=\frac{1}{|I|}\int_I w(t)\,dt,

where the supremum is taken over bounded intervals. Muckenhoupt’s theorem in [19] identifies this condition with the boundedness of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator

Mf(t):=sup⁡I∋t1∣I∣∫I∣f(s)∣ dsMf(t):=\sup_{I\ni t}\frac{1}{|I|}\int_I|f(s)|\,ds

on Lp(w)L_p(w). The same class also governs the weighted boundedness of the Hilbert transform

Hf(t):=p.v.⁡1π∫Rf(s)t−s dsHf(t):=\operatorname{p.v.}\frac{1}{\pi}\int_{\mathbb{R}}\frac{f(s)}{t-s}\,ds

and, more generally, of Calderón–Zygmund operators [11, 3].

The extrapolation of Rubio de Francia in [25] explains why weighted norm inequalities persist between exponents. In one of its standard forms, if a sublinear operator SS satisfies

∥Sf∥Lr(w)≤Φ([w]Ar)∥f∥Lr(w)\|Sf\|_{L_r(w)}\le\Phi([w]_{A_r})\|f\|_{L_r(w)}

for all w∈Ar(R)w\in A_r(\mathbb{R}) at one exponent 1<r<∞1<r<\infty, then corresponding estimates hold at every 1<p<∞1<p<\infty and w∈Ap(R)w\in A_p(\mathbb{R}). The proof is based on the Rubio de Francia iteration algorithm, which exploits the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator to build a majorant with controlled ApA_p characteristics.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 46L52, 42B25; Secondary 46L51, 42B20.

Key words and phrases. Matrix weights, noncommutative maximal inequalities, factorization of weights, Rubio de Francia extrapolation, dimension-free.

Matrix-weighted theory differs substantially from its scalar counterpart. We say w:R→Md(C)w : \mathbb{R} \to M_d(\mathbb{C}) is a matrix weight if it is measurable, positive definite almost everywhere, and locally integrable. Given f:R→ℓ2df : \mathbb{R} \to\ell_2^d, the usual Hilbert-valued realization is

∥f∥Lp(w;ℓ2d)=(∫R∥w(t)1/pf(t)∥ℓ2dp dt)1/p.\|f\|_{L_p(w;\ell_2^d)}=\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}}\|w(t)^{1/p}f(t)\|_{\ell_2^d}^p\,dt\right)^{1/p}.

For d=1d=1, this reduces to the scalar weighted norm. For d>1d>1, Treil and Volberg proved the matrix A2A_2 characterization of the Hilbert transform [29] but with the sharp A2A_2-bound different from the classical one [20, 5], and Volberg’s geometric formulation of Ap(R;Md(C))A_p(\mathbb{R};M_d(\mathbb{C})) describes matrix weights through averaged norm duality [30]. Further characterizations and maximal function approaches were developed by Nazarov-Treil, Christ-Goldberg and Goldberg in [21, 2, 6]. In particular, Goldberg’s Hilbert-valued maximal theorem can be stated as follows: the maximal operator

Mwf(t):=sup⁡I∋t1∣I∣∫I∥w1/p(t)w−1/p(s)f(s)∥ℓ2d ds(1)M_wf(t):=\sup_{I\ni t}\frac{1}{|I|}\int_I\|w^{1/p}(t)w^{-1/p}(s)f(s)\|_{\ell_2^d}\,ds \tag*{(1)}

is bounded from Lp(R;ℓ2d)L_p(\mathbb{R};\ell_2^d) to Lp(R)L_p(\mathbb{R}) precisely for matrix Ap(R;Md(C))A_p(\mathbb{R};M_d(\mathbb{C})) weights, with constants depending on the corresponding matrix ApA_p characteristic [12]. These results provide a robust matrix-weighted theory, but the scalar Rubio de Francia algorithm does not transfer directly.

The obstruction is simple to state. In the scalar theory, Rubio de Francia’s algorithm repeatedly applies a positive maximal operator and uses pointwise suprema. In the matrix-valued setting there is no canonical vector-valued supremum with the same input and output structure. Goldberg’s maximal function, for instance, characterizes matrix ApA_p weights, but it maps vector-valued functions to scalar-valued functions. This loss of the original output space prevents a direct iteration argument. One recent way around this obstruction was proposed by Bownik and Cruz-Uribe, who use convex set-valued analysis and a corresponding convex set-valued maximal function to formulate matrix-weighted extrapolation [1]. This approach preserves an input-output structure at the level of convex bodies.

In the present paper, we try to address this problem from the viewpoint of noncommutative analysis. More precisely, the operator space Lp(M;ℓ∞)L_p(\mathcal{M};\ell_\infty) playing the role of the space of families of functions with the related maximal function in LpL_p motivates us to search for an extrapolation argument in the noncommutative setting. The definitions of noncommutative LpL_p-spaces and Lp(M;ℓ∞)L_p(\mathcal{M};\ell_\infty) will be recalled in Section 2. The latter is one of the basic vector-valued noncommutative LpL_p-spaces introduced by Pisier [22] and developed by Junge in his proof of the noncommutative Doob maximal inequality [13]. It has since become an essential tool in noncommutative martingale and ergodic theory, including the noncommutative Dunford-Schwartz maximal ergodic theorem of Junge and Xu [14] and the noncommutative Hardy-Littlewood maximal inequality by Mei [18]. More recently, noncommutative maximal norms have been used to prove maximal ergodic inequalities under doubling conditions [9] and pointwise convergence results for noncommutative Fourier series [10].

The noncommutative weighted spaces

For any von Neumann algebra M\mathcal{M} and 0<p<∞0<p<\infty, there is an intrinsic Haagerup LpL_p space associated with M\mathcal{M} [7]. In the semifinite tracial setting, this construction is compatible with the usual noncommutative LpL_p spaces and with Kosaki’s interpolation approach [16, 23]. The symmetric realization has proved particularly useful in reduction arguments for noncommutative LpL_p spaces [8].

Motivated by this point of view, let (M,τ)(\mathcal{M},\tau) be a von Neumann algebra of finite trace, by which we mean that τ(1)<∞\tau(1)<\infty. For 0<p<∞0<p<\infty, and a full-support w∈L0+(M)w\in L_0^+(\mathcal{M}), one defines the symmetric weighted realization

∥x∥Lp(M,w)=∥w1/2pxw1/2p∥Lp(M).\|x\|_{L_p(\mathcal{M},w)}=\|w^{1/2p}xw^{1/2p}\|_{L_p(\mathcal{M})}.

We restrict to trace-finite von Neumann algebras so that full-support positive weights, their inverses, and the products all belong to the same algebra of measurable operators, and thus we may define the weighted space Lp(M,w)L_p(\mathcal{M},w) as a subset of L0(M)L_0(\mathcal{M}). In the general semifinite setting, all this is no longer automatic, and we have no idea how to define a suitable class of weights stable under the various operations.

But an exceptional case that we will take care of in this paper is

N=L∞(R)⊗‾Md(C),\mathcal{N}=L_{\infty}(\mathbb{R})\overline{\otimes}M_{d}(\mathbb{C}),

with the tensor trace that is semifinite. A matrix weight is, throughout this paper, a strongly measurable, almost everywhere positive-definite, and locally integrable function w:R→Md(C)w:\mathbb{R}\to M_{d}(\mathbb{C}). On this algebra all weighted products can be understood pointwise in the matrix fibers. Thus one may well define

∥f∥Lp(N,w)=(∫R∥w(t)1/2pf(t)w(t)1/2p∥Spdp dt)1/p(2)\|f\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w)}=\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}}\left\|w(t)^{1/2p}f(t)w(t)^{1/2p}\right\|_{S_{p}^{d}}^{p}\,\mathrm{d}t\right)^{1/p} \tag*{(2)}

and the resulting weighted space Lp(N,w)L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w) as a subset of strongly measurable functions. This two-sided space differs from the classical Hilbert-valued matrix-weighted space above.

The maximal inequality characterization

Our first result identifies the correct matrix ApA_{p} class for the validity of a noncommutative Hardy–Littlewood maximal inequality. The definition of Ap(N)A_{p}(\mathcal{N}) used below is given in § 3, which is inspired by Volberg’s averaged-norm formulation: the matrix weight ww induces pointwise norms on Md(C)M_{d}(\mathbb{C}), and Ap(N)A_{p}(\mathcal{N}) is expressed as a uniform comparison between averaged dual norms.

Let I\mathcal{I} be the family of bounded intervals in R\mathbb{R} and for each I∈II\in\mathcal{I}, define the averaging operator

AIf=(1∣I∣∫If(s) ds)χI.A_{I}f=\left(\frac{1}{|I|}\int_{I}f(s)\,\mathrm{d}s\right)\chi_{I}.

The weighted noncommutative maximal norm is defined as follows

∥(AIf)I∈I∥Lp(N,w;ℓ∞):=∥sup⁡I∈I+AIf∥Lp(N,w):=∥sup⁡I∈I+w1/2p(AIf)w1/2p∥Lp(N).\|(A_{I}f)_{I\in\mathcal{I}}\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w;\ell_{\infty})}:=\left\|\sup_{I\in\mathcal{I}}^{+}A_{I}f\right\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w)}:=\left\|\sup_{I\in\mathcal{I}}^{+}w^{1/2p}(A_{I}f)w^{1/2p}\right\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N})}.

Let SNc\mathcal{S}_{\mathcal{N}}^{c} be the subset of bounded operators with compact support on the real line. Our first main result is a maximal characterization of our new matrix weight class Ap(N)A_{p}(\mathcal{N}).

Theorem 1.1. Let 1<p<∞1<p<\infty and ww be a matrix weight. Then w∈Ap(N)w\in A_{p}(\mathcal{N}) if and only if

∥sup⁡I∈I+AIf∥Lp(N,w)≤C∥f∥Lp(N,w),f∈SNc.(3)\left\|\sup_{I\in\mathcal{I}}^{+}A_{I}f\right\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w)}\leq C\|f\|_{L_{p}(\mathcal{N},w)},\qquad f\in\mathcal{S}_{\mathcal{N}}^{c}. \tag*{(3)}

Moreover, the optimal constant in (3) denoted by Cp,d(w)C_{p,d}(w) satisfies

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