Book Description

In this monograph, the author generalizes the T1 theorem of G. David and J.-L. Journé to the context of Triebel-Lizorkin spaces, which include most of the function and distribution spaces of importance in classical analysis. M. Frazier and B. Jawerth have shown that these spaces admit decompositions in terms of certain fundamental building blocks, known as "smooth atoms'' and "smooth molecules''. In the author's words, "to prove that an operator is bounded on a Triebel-Lizorkin space, it is enough to show that it maps every family of smooth atoms into a family of smooth molecules''. The same basic techniques can be used to study operators between two different Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Results are obtained for a wide variety of operators acting on the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces, including generalized Calderón-Zygmund operators and their derivatives; potential operators; fractional integral operators; and the Hörmander classes of pseudodifferential operators. When these general results are restricted to specific spaces, many classical boundedness results are recovered.