BMO functions and Carleson measures with values in uniformly convex spaces

Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between vector-valued BMO functions and the Carleson measures defined by their gradients. Let $dA$ and $dm$ denote Lebesgue measures on the unit disc $D$ and the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$, respectively. For $1<q<\infty$ and a Banach space $B$ we prove that there exists a positive constant $c$ such that $$\sup_{z_0\in D}\int_{D}(1-|z|)^{q-1}\|\nabla f(z)\|^q P_{z_0}(z) dA(z) \le c^q\sup_{z_0\in D}\int_{\T}\|f(z)-f(z_0)\|^qP_{z_0}(z) dm(z)$$ holds for all trigonometric polynomials $f$ with coefficients in $B$ iff $B$ admits an equivalent norm which is $q$-uniformly convex, where $$P_{z_0}(z)=\frac{1-|z_0{|}^2}{|1-\overline{z_0}z{|}^2}.$$ The validity of the converse inequality is equivalent to the existence of an equivalent $q$-uniformly smooth norm.

To appear in Canadian J. Math