Best constants for uncentered maximal functions

Grafakos, L.; Montgomery-Smith, Stephen J.

Best constants for uncentered maximal functions

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We precisely evaluate the operator norm of the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal function on $L^p(\Bbb R^1)$. We also compute the operator norm of the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal function over rectangles on $L^p(\Bbb R^n)$, and we show that the operator norm of the uncentered Hardy-Littlewood maximal function over balls on $L^p(\Bbb R^n)$ grows exponentially with the dimension as $n \to \infty$.