A remark on the Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions

Abstract

We investigate the magnitude relation of the non-centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal operators and centered one. By using a discretization technique, we prove two facts: the first one is that the space is ultrametric if and only if the two maximal operators are identical for all discrete measure; the second is, the uncentred maximal operator is strictly greater than the centered one if $(M,d_g)$ is a Riemannian manifold and $\mu$ is the Riemannian volume measure.