Multilinear interpolation between adjoint operators

Abstract

Multilinear interpolation is a powerful tool used in obtaining strong type boundedness for a variety of operators assuming only a finite set of restricted weak-type estimates. A typical situation occurs when one knows that a multilinear operator satisfies a weak $L^q$ estimate for a single index $q$ (which may be less than one) and that all the adjoints of the multilinear operator are of similar nature, and thus they also satisfy the same weak $L^q$ estimate. Under this assumption, in this expository note we give a general multilinear interpolation theorem which allows one to obtain strong type boundedness for the operator (and all of its adjoints) for a large set of exponents. The key point in the applications we discuss is that the interpolation theorem can handle the case $q \leq 1$. When $q > 1$, weak $L^q$ has a predual, and such strong type boundedness can be easily obtained by duality and multilinear interpolation.