Bhandari, Mukta Bahadur2010-08-022010-08-022010-08-02http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4375The main focus of this work is to study the classical Calder\'{o}n-Zygmund theory and its recent developments. An attempt has been made to study some of its theory in more generality in the context of a nonhomogeneous space equipped with a measure which is not necessarily doubling. We establish a Hedberg type inequality associated to a non-doubling measure which connects two famous theorems of Harmonic Analysis-the Hardy-Littlewood-Weiner maximal theorem and the Hardy-Sobolev integral theorem. Hedberg inequalities give pointwise estimates of the Riesz potentials in terms of an appropriate maximal function. We also establish a good lambda inequality relating the distribution function of the Riesz potential and the fractional maximal function in $(\rn, d\mu)$, where $\mu$ is a positive Radon measure which is not necessarily doubling. Finally, we also derive potential inequalities as an application.en-USRiesz PotentialsNon-doubling MeasuresGood lambda inequalityHedberg InequalityMaximal FunctionsWeight FunctionsDissertationMathematics (0405)