The distance from functions in BMO to BLO

Abstract

Let BMO and BLO denote the spaces of all locally integrable real-valued functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with bounded mean oscillation and bounded lower oscillation, respectively. It is well known that $$L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)\subsetneqq {\rm BLO}\subsetneqq {\rm BMO}.$$ In 1978, Garnett and Jones gave distance formulas of $f\in {\rm BMO}$ to $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and recently, Angrisani studied the distance of $f\in {\rm BLO}$ to $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$. In this paper, we characterize the distance from any given function $f \in {\rm BMO}$ to BLO via the Muckenhoupt weight class $A_p$ as follows \begin{center} dist\,($f$,\ BLO)\,$\sim\inf\left\{\xi\in(0,\infty):\ e^{-\frac f\xi}\in A_p\ \mathrm{for\ some\ }p\in(1,\infty)\right\}$. \end{center} Two equivalent representations of this distance are also established in terms of exponential form and the infimum of the constant in a variant of John--Nirenberg inequality, respectively.