On the necessity of bump conditions for the two-weighted maximal inequality

Abstract

We study the necessity of bump conditions for the boundedness of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator $M$ from $L^p(v)$ into $L^p(w)$, where $1<p<\infty$. The conditions in question are obtained by replacing the average of $\sigma =v^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}$ in the Muckenhoupt $A_p$-condition by an average with respect to certain Banach function space, and are known to be sufficient for the two-weighted maximal inequality. We show that these conditions are in general not necessary for the boundedness of $M$ from $L^p(v)$ into $L^p(w)$.