Characterizations of a limiting class B_∞ of Békollé–Bonami weights

We explore properties of the class of Békollé–Bonami weights B∞ introduced by the authors in a previous work. Although Békollé–Bonami weights are known to be ill-behaved because they do not satisfy a reverse Hölder property, we prove that when restricting to a class of weights that are “nearly constant on top halves”, one recovers some of the classical properties of Muckenhoupt weights. We also provide an application of this result to the study of the spectra of certain integral operators.