Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2019
Our aim in this paper is to deal with integrability of maximal functions for Herz–Morrey spaces on the unit ball with variable exponent $p_{1}(\cdot )$ approaching $1$ and for double phase functionals $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7}_{d}(x,t)=t^{p_{1}(x)}+a(x)t^{p_{2}}$, where $a(x)^{1/p_{2}}$ is nonnegative, bounded and Hölder continuous of order $\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}\in (0,1]$ and $1/p_{2}=1-\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}/N>0$. We also establish Sobolev type inequality for Riesz potentials on the unit ball.