Lacunary $δ$-Discretised Spherical Maximal Operators

Abstract: We study the lacunary analogue of the $\delta$-discretised spherical maximal operators introduced by Hickman and Jan\v{c}ar, for $\delta \in (0, 1/2)$, and establish the boundedness on $L^p$ for all $1 < p < \infty$, along with the endpoint weak-type estimate $H^1 \to L^{1,\infty}$. We also prove the corresponding $L^p$ boundedness for the multi-parameter variant. The constants in these bounds are uniform in $\delta$, and thus, by taking the limit $\delta \to 0^+$, our results recover the classical boundedness of the lacunary spherical maximal function.