Correction to ``Optimal factorization of Muckenhoupt weights''

Peter Jones' theorem on the factorization of $A_p$ weights is sharpened for weights with bounds near $1$, allowing the factorization to be performed continuously near the limiting, unweighted case. When $1<p<\infty$ and $w$ is an $A_p$ weight with bound $A_p(w)=1+\varepsilon$, it is shown that there exist $A_1$ weights $u,v$ such that both the formula $w=uv^{1-p}$ and the estimates $A_1(u), A_1(v)=1+\mathcal O(\sqrt\varepsilon)$ hold. The square root in these estimates is also proven to be the correct asymptotic power as $\varepsilon\to 0$.