Discrete Littlewood–Paley–Stein characterization of multi-parameter local Hardy spaces

In our recent work [W. Ding, G. Lu and Y. Zhu, Multi-parameter local Hardy spaces, Nonlinear Anal. 184 2019, 352–380], the multi-parameter local Hardy space {h^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n_{1}}\times\mathbb{R}^{n_{2}})} has been introduced by using the continuous inhomogeneous Littlewood–Paley–Stein square functions. In this paper, we will first establish the new discrete multi-parameter local Calderón’s identity. Based on this identity, we will define the local multi-parameter Hardy space {h_{\mathrm{dis}}^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n_{1}}\times\mathbb{R}^{n_{2}})} by using the discrete inhomogeneous Littlewood–Paley–Stein square functions. Then we prove that these two multi-parameter local Hardy spaces are actually the same. Moreover, the norms of the multi-parameter local Hardy spaces under the continuous and discrete Littlewood–Paley–Stein square functions are equivalent. This discrete version of the multi-parameter local Hardy space is also critical in establishing the duality theory of the multi-parameter local Hardy spaces.