Some remarks on Davis inequality for biparameter filtrations

Abstract: The Davis inequality $\mathbb{E} Sf\simeq \mathbb{E} f^*$ between $L^1$ norms of square function of a martingale and its maximal function is known for martingales indexed by linearly ordered filtrations and in some particular cases for double indexed one. We prove the $\gtrsim $ inequality for arbitrary filtrations satisfying the (F4) condition of Cairoli and Walsh and propose a method to attack the other inequality. The former is done by means of a two-parameter analogue of Davis-Garsia decomposition.