Let μ be a locally finite Borel measure and ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si1.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=b7164e6f30fba35666d53c1c6e4447de" title="Click to view the MathML source">D a family of measurable sets equipped with a certain dyadic structure. For ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=17282afcfedcd552f559c48972fb0a63" title="Click to view the MathML source">E⊂Rup>nup> and ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si3.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=dd1e5a5e56ca95fdf92a1e0bee898477" title="Click to view the MathML source">0<α≤n, by α-dimensional Hausdorff content we mean
where the infimum is taken over all coverings of E by countable families of the abstract dyadic cubes ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si5.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=8c147b197bf6cde1f24d274f061d7f92" title="Click to view the MathML source">{Qub>jub>}⊂D. In this paper we study the boundedness of the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator urce" class="mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si32.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=200b59a2885dfd7a2c5779933c7d3ae8">urce" title="View the MathML source" src="/sd/grey_pxl.gif" data-inlimgeid="1-s2.0-S0007449716300161-si32.gif"> adapted to ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si1.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=b7164e6f30fba35666d53c1c6e4447de" title="Click to view the MathML source">D and μ , that is, we prove the strong type ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si7.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=b06e965900af6bf3d4c47fcc2ce6019e" title="Click to view the MathML source">(p,p) inequality
for ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si49.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=d070c1bb580f88c889d1a85e451271de" title="Click to view the MathML source">α/n<p<∞, and the weak type ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0007449716300161&_mathId=si10.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0007449716300161&_rdoc=1&_issn=00074497&md5=248147d6eacd09b9552ac2ee858d4f36" title="Click to view the MathML source">(α/n,α/n) inequality