Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent satisfying a log-Hölder condition at infinity

Our aim in this paper is to deal with the boundedness of maximal functions in generalized Lebesgue spaces Lp(⋅) when p(⋅) satisfies a log-Hölder condition at infinity that is weaker than that of Cruz-Uribe, Fiorenza and Neugebauer [D. Cruz-Uribe, A. Fiorenza, C.J. Neugebauer, The maximal function on variable Lp spaces, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 28 (2003) 223-238; 29 (2004) 247-249]. Our result extends the recent work of Diening [L. Diening, Maximal functions on generalized Lp(⋅) spaces, Math. Inequal. Appl. 7 (2004) 245-254] and the authors Futamura and Mizuta [T. Futamura, Y. Mizuta, Sobolev embeddings for Riesz potential space of variable exponent, preprint]. As an application of the boundedness of maximal functions, we show Sobolev's inequality for Riesz potentials with variable exponent.