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Uniform volume estimates and maximal functions on generalized Heisenberg-type groups

Cheng Bi , Hong-Quan Li This is my paper

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Uniform volume estimates and O(C^m n) weak (1,1) maximal function bounds hold for Carnot-Carathéodory balls on generalized Heisenberg-type groups G(2n,m,U,W), extending prior work with a volume-doubling by-product.

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Generalized Heisenberg-type groups are non-commutative structures that arise in sub-Riemannian geometry. The authors prove that the volume of metric balls stays controlled uniformly across a wide family of distances that come from the group structure. They also show that averaging operators over these balls satisfy a weak-type inequality whose constant grows only linearly with the dimension parameters. The same techniques yield volume doubling that is uniform over a class of Riemannian metrics on ordinary Heisenberg groups.

Core claim

we give uniform volume estimates for the ball defined by a large class of Carnot-Carathéodory distances, and establish weak (1, 1) O(C^m n)-estimates for associated centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions, extending the results in BLZ25. As a by-product, we establish uniformly volume doubling property on Heisenberg groups for a class of left-invariant Riemannian metrics.

Load-bearing premise

The generalized Heisenberg-type groups G(2n,m,U,W) admit a sufficiently rich family of Carnot-Carathéodory distances for which the volume and maximal-function constants remain uniform in the group parameters.

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On generalized Heisenberg-type groups $\mathbb{G}(2n,m,\mathbb{U},\mathbb{W})$, we give uniform volume estimates for the ball defined by a large class of Carnot-Carath\'{e}odory distances, and establish weak (1, 1) $O(C^m \, n)$-estimates for associated centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions, extending the results in \cite{BLZ25}. As a by-product, we establish uniformly volume doubling property on Heisenberg groups for a class of left-invariant Riemannian metrics.

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