$$A_p$$ weights on nonhomogeneous trees equipped with measures of exponential growth

Abstract This paper aims to study $$A_p$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> weights in the context of a class of metric measure spaces with exponential volume growth, namely infinite trees with root at infinity equipped with the geodesic distance and flow measures. Our main result is a Muckenhoupt Theorem, which is a characterization of the weights for which a suitable Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator is bounded on the corresponding weighted $$L^p$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>L</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> </mml:msup> </mml:math> spaces. We emphasise that this result does not require any geometric assumption on the tree or any condition on the flow measure. We also prove a reverse Hölder inequality in the case when the flow measure is locally doubling. We finally show that the logarithm of an $$A_p$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> weight is in BMO and discuss the connection between $$A_p$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>A</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> weights and quasisymmetric mappings.