2026/07/16 by Yongsheng Han, Bingyang Hu
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We study the parabolic maximal operator M_\textrmpar along the moment curve (t,t2). In 1988, Christ proved that M_\textrmpar maps the parabolic Hardy space H_\textrmpar1(\mathbb R2), formulated using (1,∞)-atoms, into L1,∞(\mathbb R2). Working directly with parabolic (p,∞)-atoms, we show that this result is sharp at p=1: for every 0<p<1, the natural extension from H_\textrmparp(\mathbb R2) to Lp,∞(\mathbb R2) fails even for the corresponding single-scale operator. We then introduce a curvature-adapted modified Hardy space H_\textrmparp,*(\mathbb R2) and a weak tendril space \mathcal Tp,∞(\mathbb R2), and prove that M_\textrmpar: H_\textrmparp,*(\mathbb R2) \longrightarrow \mathcal Tp,∞(\mathbb R2), 0<p<1, is bounded. At p=1, these spaces recover those in Christ's theorem: H_\textrmpar1,*(\mathbb R2)=H_\textrmpar1(\mathbb R2) and \mathcal T1,∞(\mathbb R2)=L1,∞(\mathbb R2). Thus, our result provides a natural extension of Christ's work to the range 0<p<1.