A local version of Hardy spaces associated with operators on metric spaces

Let(X,d,μ) be a metric measure space endowed with a distance d and a nonnegative Borel doubling measure μ.Let L be a second order self-adjoint positive operator on L2(X).Assume that the semigroup e tL generated by L satisfies the Gaussian upper bounds on L 2(X).In this article we study a local version of Hardy space h1L(X) associated with L in terms of the area function characterization,and prove their atomic characters.Furthermore,we introduce a Moser type local boundedness condition for L,and then we apply this condition to show that the space h1L(X) can be characterized in terms of the Littlewood-Paley function.Finally,a broad class of applications of these results is described.