Riesz Transform Characterizations of Hardy Spaces Associated to Degenerate Elliptic Operators

Abstract: Let $w$ be a Muckenhoupt $A_2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ weight and $L_w:=-w^{-1}\mathop\mathrm{div}(A\nabla)$ the degenerate elliptic operator on the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this article, the authors establish the Riesz transform characterization of the Hardy space $H_{L_w}^p(\mathbb{R}^n)$ associated with $L_w$, for $w\in A_{q}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $w^{-1}\in A_{2-\frac{2}{n}}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ with $n\geq 3$, $q\in[1,2]$ and $p\in(q(\frac{1}{r}+\frac{q-1}{2}+\frac{1}{n})^{-1},1]$ if, for some $r\in[1,\,2)$, ${tL_w e^{-tL_w}}_{t\geq 0}$ satisfies the weighted $L^r-L^2$ full off-diagonal estimate.