Eigenfunctions of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator
Volume 118 / 2010
                    
                    
                        Colloquium Mathematicum 118 (2010), 379-389                    
                                        
                        MSC: Primary 42B25.                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/cm118-2-2                    
                                    
                                                Abstract
We prove that peak shaped eigenfunctions of the one-dimensional uncentered Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator are symmetric and homogeneous. This implies that the norms of the maximal operator on $L(p)$ spaces are not attained.