Boundedness of the $q$-Mean-Square Operator on Vector-Valued Analytic Martingales

http://dx.doi.org/10.4153/CMB-1999-027-3
Canad. Math. Bull. 42(1999), 221-230

  Published:1999-06-01
 Printed: Jun 1999

We study boundedness properties of the $q$-mean-square operator $S^{(q)}$ on $E$-valued analytic martingales, where $E$ is a complex quasi-Banach space and $2 \leq q < \infty$. We establish that a.s. finiteness of $S^{(q)}$ for every bounded $E$-valued analytic martingale implies strong $(p,p)$-type estimates for $S^{(q)}$ and all $p\in (0,\infty)$. Our results yield new characterizations (in terms of analytic and stochastic properties of the function $S^{(q)}$) of the complex spaces $E$ that admit an equivalent $q$-uniformly PL-convex quasi-norm. We also obtain a vector-valued extension (and a characterization) of part of an observation due to Bourgain and Davis concerning the $L^p$-boundedness of the usual square-function on scalar-valued analytic martingales.