In mathematics, the Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem, discovered by Józef Marcinkiewicz (1939), is a result bounding the norms of non-linear operators acting on Lp spaces.
Marcinkiewicz' theorem is similar to the Riesz–Thorin theorem about linear operators, but also applies to non-linear operators.
Let f be a measurable function with real or complex values, defined on a measure space (X, F, ω). The distribution function of f is defined by
Then f is called weak if there exists a constant C such that the distribution of f satisfies the following inequality for all t > 0:
The smallest constant C in the inequality above is called the weak norm and is usually denoted by ||f||1,w or ||f||1,∞. Similarly the space is usually denoted by L1,w or L1,∞.