摘要

We investigate the regularity properties of the two-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. We point out that the above operator is bounded and continuous on the Sobolev spaces W-s,W-p(R-2) for 0 <= s < 1 and 1 <= p < infinity. More importantly, we establish the sharp boundedness and continuity for the discrete two-dimensional one-sided Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator from l(1)(Z(2)) to BV(Z(2)). Here BV(Z(2)) denotes the set of all functions of bounded variation on Z(2).