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Suppose$μ$is a positive measure on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ given by$μ$=$ν$×$λ$, where$ν$and$λ$are Radon measures on $\mathcal{S}^{1}$ and $\mathbb{R}^{{\mathchoice {\raise .17ex\hbox {$\scriptstyle +$}} {\raise .17ex\hbox {$\scriptstyle +$}} {\raise .1ex\hbox {$\scriptscriptstyle +$}} {\scriptscriptstyle +}}}$ , respectively, which do not vanish on any open interval. We prove that if for either$ν$or$λ$there exists a set of positive measure$A$in its domain for which the upper and lower$s$-densities, 0<$s$≤1, are positive and finite for every$x$∈$A$then the uncentered Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator$M$_{$μ$}is weak-type (1,1) if and only if$ν$is doubling and$λ$is doubling away from the origin. This generalizes results of Vargas concerning rotation-invariant measures on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ when$n$=2.

We study differentiability properties of a potential of the type K⋆μ, where μ is a finite Radon measure in RN and the kernel K satisfies |∇jK(x)|≤C|x|−(N−1+j),j=0,1,2. We introduce a notion of differentiability in the capacity sense, where capacity is classical capacity in the de la Vallée Poussin sense associated with the kernel |x|−(N−1). We require that the first order remainder at a point is small when measured by means of a normalized weak capacity “norm” in balls of small radii centered at the point. This implies weak LN/(N−1) differentiability and thus Lp differentiability in the Calderón–Zygmund sense for 1≤p<N/(N−1). We show that K⋆μ is a.e. differentiable in the capacity sense, thus strengthening a recent result by Ambrosio, Ponce and Rodiac. We also present an alternative proof of a quantitative theorem of the authors just mentioned, giving pointwise Lipschitz estimates for K⋆μ. As an application, we study level sets of newtonian potentials of finite Radon measures.