Weak integral conditions for BMO

Abstract

We study the question of how much one can weaken the defining condition of BMO. Specifically, we show that if $Q$ is a cube in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $h:[0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)$ is such that $h(t)\underset{t\to\infty}{\longrightarrow}\infty,$ then $$ \sup_{J \text{subcube} Q} \frac1{|J|}\int_J h(|\varphi-\frac1{|J|} \int_J\varphi |)<\infty \Longrightarrow \varphi\in BMO(Q). $$ Under some additional assumptions on $h$ we obtain estimates on $\|\varphi\|_{BMO}$ in terms of the supremum above. We also show that even though the condition $h(t)\underset{t\to\infty}{\longrightarrow}\infty$ is not necessary for this implication to hold, it becomes necessary if one considers the dyadic BMO.