“…In R 2 , Bak [1] showed that the converse is true for 0 < 3/2. In higher dimensions, n 3, this was established only for 1/2 < (n + 1)/2 (see [1,3,8]). In addition to strong (p, q) boundedness of T − , for (1/p, 1/q) on the line segments (A , B ], (A , B ] (0 < < 3/2 if n = 2 and 1/2 < < (n + 1)/2 if n 3), some weaker endpoint estimates are known (see [1,8]).…”