The norm of the Cesaro operator minus the identity and related operators acting on decreasing sequences

Recently, several authors have considered the problem of determining optimal norm inequalities for discrete Hardy-type operators (like Cesaro or Copson). In this work, we obtain sharp bounds for the norms of the difference of the Cesaro operator with either the identity or the shift, when they are restricted to the cone of decreasing sequences in lp (which is closely related to the previously mentioned estimates). Finally, we also address the case of weighted inequalities and find an interesting contrast between the norms of these two difference operators. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).