Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We study boundedness properties of the $q$ -mean-square operator
{{S}^{(q)}} on
$E$ -valued analytic martingales, where
$E$ is a complex quasi-Banach space and
$2\,\le \,q\,<\,\infty $ . We establish that a.s. finiteness of
${{S}^{(q)}}$ for every bounded
$E$ -valued analytic martingale implies strong
$(p,\,p)$ -type estimates for
${{S}^{(q)}}$ and all
$p\,\in \,(0,\,\infty )$ . Our results yield new characterizations (in terms of analytic and stochastic properties of the function
${{S}^{(q)}}$ ) of the complex spaces
$E$ that admit an equivalent
$q$ -uniformly
$\text{PL}$ -convex quasi-norm. We also obtain a vector-valued extension (and a characterization) of part of an observation due to Bourgain and Davis concerning the
${{L}^{p}}$ -boundedness of the usual square-function on scalar-valued analytic martingales.