Characterization of the weak-type boundedness of the Hilbert transform on weighted Lorentz spaces

Abstract

We characterize the weak-type boundedness of the Hilbert transform $H$ on weighted Lorentz spaces $\Lambda^p_u(w)$, with $p>0$, in terms of some geometric conditions on the weights $u$ and $w$ and the weak-type boundedness of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator on the same spaces. Our results recover simultaneously the theory of the boundedness of $H$ on weighted Lebesgue spaces $L^p(u)$ and Muckenhoupt weights $A_p$, and the theory on classical Lorentz spaces $\Lambda^p(w)$ and Ari\~no Muckenhoupt weights $B_p$.