193 Internat. J. Math. & Math. Sci. (1994) 193-196 VOL. 17 NO. EXTENSIONS OF HARDY-LITTLEWOOD INEQUALITIES ZENGJIAN LOU Mathematics Department Qufu Normal University Qufu Shandong 273165 P. R. China (Received December 30, 1992 and In revised form May 13, 1993) ABSTRACT. For a function f 6- H’(B.) Q) IfO<p<s,then with f(0) or-’( lOg 1) 0 f we prove "*- f Iip<,then P here Rf is the fractional derivative of JO f. These results generali the known cases s 8, KEY WORDS AND PHRASES. H’(B.) space,fractional derivative. 1991 AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION CODES. 32A10. 1. INTRODUCTION. Let C" denote the n-dimensional vector space over C. Let B. dehote the unit ball in C" with . boundary 3B,, and let o denote the rotation-invariant positive measure on 3B,. for which o(3B,.) 1. We assume that fis holomorphic in B.. Let R#f(z) ]ala.be the fractional derivative of f(z) , a.a(fl > 0). For 0 < p,s,fl < oo, we set M(r,f) /J If(r) and fll L.# I ,If(rl l’-’lR#f(r) l’( lg 7) r-’do(ldr As usual ,for 0 < p < o, H(B.) denotes the space of holomorphic functions on B. for which the means Mp(r,f) are bounded and the norm of f 6_ Ht(B,.) is defined by Z. LOU 194 f II, sup0<.<,M,(r,f). Throughout this note,we assume that f 6_ H(B.) with f(0) 0. In [1], Hardy Littlewood proved the following well--known theorem about H(BI). THEOREM HL. If 0 < p 2 ,f 6_ /-P(B,), then p< f]0(1 , then r)(r,fl)dr < (.) * implies f 6 H"(B,). In this note, we generali these results to the unit ball B., with a new and short prof. That is, we prove the following If 2 If0<p,then TOREM. 1 j p< @ I[ t , then f L., , 1 f I n the Theorem 5y the ollowin then LEMMA. For 0 < p < , II/II ; we have the -1 ’ II/II {ollowin orollary, which extends Theorem (note that COROLLARY. 0 , <p o B., R’/() r then 1 I{ Z p< , then 2. PROOF OF THE MAIN RESULTS. PROOF of the Theorem. Let 0 < p Set/4’) If(r) IIf ; then aa./a()da() - =(llfll,. f > f s. 1 Assume without loss of generality that we have by Jensen’s.inequality, for each R’f(r) I’/,(Dd())’/’ f(rD j..I If(r/Z) I’-’lRf(rD I’da(/;) ’ > f II, f f,-’(r,Rf) r, 0, EXTENSIONS OF HARDY-LITTLEWOOD INEQUALITIES 195 Therefore fli ’-,f’f * JoJ. If(r)lt-’lRPf(r)l’(log fil T’ fll ;.,., rThe case p log r, -)’P-’r-’d()dr M;(r, Rf)dr s is treated in a similar way to obtain,for each r, f f tt-’Or-[joxlog 7)1 This completes the proof of the Theorem. Now,we use the technique of [2] to give the prf of the lem. B,, Rf() fr(), where ft() f(), R C B. For By the Hardy--Stein identity for one complex variable ([3]) we have M(r’fr) 2ado Ift(’)I’-’lr( r Integrating with resct to do(), using the Fubini theorem and the formula see [4, P. 15 ]), we have M,r,f, P’IJ ]f()lt-’lR’f()l’(log tting rl ,we obtain the Lemma. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The author would like to thank the referee for a meticulous reading of the manuscript, in particular for detecting an error in the first version of the Theorem and for several helpful suggestions concerning presentation of the paper. REFERENCES [1] G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood, Notes on the theory of series(XX), Generalizations of a theorem of Paley, Quart. J. Math., Oxford Ser., 8(1937), 161--171. [2] Z. J. Lou, Generalizations of Littlewood and Paley inequalities, Internat. J. Math. & Math. Sci., 16(1) (1993) ,205m207. [3] P. Stein, On a theoem of Riesz, J. London Math. Soc. ,8(1933), 242--247 [4] W. Rudin, Function theory in the unit ball of C Springer--Verlag, New York, 1980. ,