This thesis is devoted to an investigation of boundedness of a general convolution operator between certain weighted Lorentz-type spaces with the aim of proving analogues of the Young convolution inequality for these spaces. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the kernel function are given, for which the convolution operator with the fixed kernel is bounded between a certain domain space and the weighted Lorentz space of type Gamma. The considered domain spaces are the weighted Lorentz-type spaces defined in terms of the nondecreasing rearrangement of a function, the maximal function or the difference of these two quantities. In each case of the domain space, the corresponding Young-type convolution inequality is proved and the optimality of involved rearrangement-invariant spaces in shown. Furthermore, covering of the previously existing results is also discussed and some properties of the new rearrangement-invariant function spaces obtained during the process are studied. / <p>Paper II was a manuscript at the time of the defense.</p>

This work is dealing with almost-compact embeddings of function spaces, in particular, the class of classical and weak Lorentz spaces with a norm given by a general weight fuction is studied. These spaces are not Banach function spaces in general, thus the almost-compact em- bedding is defined for more general sturctures of rearrangement-invariant lattices. A general characterization of when an r.i. lattice is almost-compactly embedded into a Lorentz space, involving an optimal constant of a certain continuous embedding, is proved. Based on this the- orem and appropriate known results about continuous embeddings, explicit characterizations of mutual almost-compact embeddings of all subtypes of Lorentz spaces are obtained. 1

In this thesis we focus on generalized Gamma spaces GΓ(p, m, v) and classify some of their intrinsic properties. In an article called Relative Re- arrangement Methods for Estimating Dual Norm (for details see references), the authors attempted to characterize their associate norms but obtained only several one-sided estimates. Equipped with these, they further showed reflexivity of gener- alized Gamma spaces for p ≥ 2 and m > 1 under an additional restriction that the underlying measure space is of finite measure. However, the full characterization of the associate norm and of the reflexivity of such spaces for 2 > p > 1 remained an open problem. In this thesis we shall fill this gap. We extend the theory to a σ-finite measure space. We present a complete characterization of the associate norm, and we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the reflexivity of such spaces. 1

We investigate optimal partnership of rearrangement-invariant Banach func- tion spaces for the Hilbert transform and the Riesz potential. We establish sharp theorems which characterize optimal action of these operators on such spaces. These results enable us to construct optimal domain (i.e. the largest) and op- timal range (i.e. the smallest) partner spaces when the other space is given. We illustrate the obtained results by non-trivial examples involving Generalized Lorentz-Zygmund spaces with broken logarithmic functions. The method is pre- sented in such a way that it should be easily adaptable to other appropriate operators. 1

We study the optimal conditions on a homeomorphism f : Ω → Rn which guarantee that the composition u◦f is weakly differentiable and its weak derivative belongs to the some function space. We show that if f has finite distortion and q-distortion Kq = |Df|q /Jf is integrable enough, then the composition operator Tf (u) = u ◦ f maps functions from W1,q loc into space W1,p loc and the well-known chain rule holds. To prove it we characterize when the inverse mapping f−1 maps sets of measure zero onto sets of measure zero (satisfies the Luzin (N−1 ) con- dition). We also fully characterize conditions for Sobolev-Lorentz space WLn,q for arbitrary q and for Sobolev Orlicz space WLq log L for q ≥ n and α > 0 or 1 < q ≤ n and α < 0. We find a necessary condition on f for Sobolev rearrangement invariant function space WX close to WLq , i.e. X has q-scaling property. 1