Riesz transforms through reverse Hölder and Poincaré inequalities

Abstract

We study the boundedness of Riesz transforms in $L^p$ for $p>2$ on a doubling metric measure space endowed with a gradient operator and an injective, $\omega$-accretive operator $L$ satisfying Davies-Gaffney estimates. If $L$ is non-negative self-adjoint, we show that under a reverse Hölder inequality, the Riesz transform is always bounded on $L^p$ for $p$ in some interval $[2,2+\epsilon )$, and that $L^p$ gradient estimates for the semigroup imply boundedness of the Riesz transform in $L^q$ for $q\in [2,p)$. This improves results of \cite{ACDH} and \cite{AC}, where the stronger assumption of a Poincaré inequality and the assumption $e^{-tL}(1)=1$ were made. The Poincaré inequality assumption is also weakened in the setting of a sectorial operator $L$. In the last section, we study elliptic perturbations of Riesz transforms.

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