— 1. A fractional Hörmander type multiplier theorem —
In a few months ago we deal with translation invariant operators in
, see previous post. More precisely, was shown that there exists a tempered distribution
such that
. However, what does happens with
to get
-boundedness of
? Such questions belongs to a fruitiful area of Fourier analysis which many personages work in that, such as Marcinkiewicz, Minhklin, Hörmander, Lizorkin and more recentily Fefferman’s work about ball multiplier conjecture. In this post will be initiated the saga related to
spaces so far. Before, we recall some important definitions. Let
, we set
for any . Also, recall that
Then via Theorem 3 the operator may be written in
as
where . In fact, by observing that
we have from (2) that
being the inverse Fourier transform of
. We call the operator
in (3) of multiplier operator associated to symbol
and we will written it as
. Also, we say that
is a multiplier on
, if for all
the map
is bounded on
.
Example 1 The Fourier transform in the classical sense of
is not possible, because
not belong to any
space. However, Fourier transform
in distribution sense is given by
for more details, see notes of Iannis Parissis.
Let , the Bessel space
is the space of
functions such that
which endowed with norm
is a Banach space. The following proposition give a condition on symbol for which
is a multiplier on
.
Proposition 1 Let
and
. Then
is a multiplier on
, for
.
Proof: In view of , where
. From Young’s inequality, just we need to show
. To do this, let
. As
, from Cauchy-Schwartz inequality one gets
Example 2 Let
be bounded, that is,
. We claim that
It’s quite easy to get
via Plancherel’s theorem. It remains to get the other inequality. Let
be a ball in
with radius
. Let
such that
and
on
. Note that
The Lebesgue differentiation’s theorem yields
in other words,
.
Let be the set of all tempered distributions
away from origin of
satisfying the estimate
for all multi-index with
. In the next sections we give a much weaker hypotheses on symbol
, via Littlewood-Paley theory, which imply such as so-called symbol-H\”{o}rmader condition and
. In all that follows, the class
denotes the set of multipliers operators with symbol
belonging to
.
— 1.1. Littlewood-Paley theory —
Let be radial Schwartz function supported in
which is identically
on
. To get that, recall of the topological Urysohn’s lemma. For all
, set
Notice that , because
and
for, respectively,
and
. Moreover, the family of functions
forms a partition of unity
Next, for we define the cut-off operator or Littlewood-Palay operator as
where . Notice that
is supported in
. Indeed, by Fourier property
it follows that . Therefore, if
is supported in the annulus
then the inverse Fourier transform is supported in the annulus
In other words, the operator isolate the part of a function being each one concetrated near annulus
.
Proposition 2 The cut-off operator is a self-adjoint operator,
for any
and
.
Proof: The prove is a consequence of the radial property of . For that, firstly, shall be observed that
when we have in mind (1). Now, radial property of and (4) implies that
The decomposition of a tempered distribution into a sum of “long pieces”
supported in the annulus
is known as Littlewood-Paley decomposition, because of the famous works de Littlewood and Paley related to Fourier and Power series, see xx. More precisely, Littlewood-Paley decomposition of a tempered distribution
is defined as follows
However, there is tempered distributions for which Littlewood-Paley decomposition fail on . For instance take the distribution
and note by from Proposition 2 and
that
that is, ,
. To overcome this discomfort, we introduce in
the equivalence class
given by
where denotes the set of polynomials
,
with complex coefficients and
a non-negative integer. The space
endowed with
will be denoted by
.
Proposition 3 Let
be the space of Schwartz functions such that
Then
is a subspace of
which has
in sense of isomophism.
Proof: The prove is standard, consider the identification map which goes an element
into the equivalence class
that contains it. The kernel of the map
is
.
The aim is that, for any we have
This follows by observing that
where is that radial Schwartz function suported into a compact set and equal to
in
. To show (7), recall that a distribution
is a tempered distribution if
Easily, via identification (6), this indue in nature’s way the convergence in . Thus, it is quite easy to show
. It remains to show
Let us fixe such that
and write
because for we have
and
on ball
. Thus, given
one has
and the its Littlewood-Paley decomposition is null in
, because of
and
The last equality is obtained via
where is the Dirac mass and don’t forget that
, which is consequence of properties
- (i)
for every multi-index
- (ii)
for every multi-index
for all .
Proposition 4 If
, then
agrees with
function away from the origin and satisfies the following pointwise estimate
for all multi-index
, where
.
Proof: Let , then for all
this give us
where each peace is supported on annulus
. So makes sense to define,
If , for
one has
It follows that
If we put into the last equality above, for all multi-indices
and non-negative
we have
We split into two sums as
For and
into (10), respectively, we get
and
This inequalities says us that converges absolutely and uniforms in
. It follows that
converges in
to a function
which also satisfies the estimate
As converges to
, then
and we obtain the desired estimate.
In what follows, denotes the space of
Bochner integrable functions
from
to a Banach space
and we write
Theorem 5 (Littlewood-Paley Theorem) Let
the Littlewood-Paley operator. If
, there exists a positive constant
such that
Moreover,
Proof: The inequality (13) follows from Theorem 5.4 in [1]. In fact,
in other words, the map is bounded from
to
. It remains to show that the kernel
of the map
satisfies the
H\”{o}rmander condition, which can be obtained from estimate
Indeed, by mean value theorem one has
The inequalities above show us that the kernel is a singular kernel from
to
and the inequality (13) follows from Theorem 5.4 in [1].
From now on, will be showed the estimate (14). To this end, we remember of which give us
Recall that , where
is a Schwartz function. Therefore,
for all multi-index
, that is,
. And by Proposition 4 follows that there exists a positive constant
for which
Setting
and recalling that , we have via inequalities (15) and (16), respectively, that
Let be in
, where
. For each
, let
and
. From self-adjointness of
, follows that
By duality of and Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, respectively, one has
where we use the Hölder inequality and first Littlewood-Paley inequality (13) above. If we replace by
in (16) such that
and we put
, it follows that
as desired. It remains to get . To do this, let
and set
Then on annulus
, that is,
. Indeed,
since
and
since
. This finish our prove.
Lemma 6 Let
and
. Set
. If
, then there exists a positive constant
(independent of
,
and
) such that
where
denotes the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function,
Proof: Let , then the kernel of
satisfy
. Therefore, by Hölder inequality and Plancharel theorem we obtain
where and
. It follows by Fubini theorem that
The last inequality is obtaind from splitting into lattices
of length
, see figure below.

Indeed,
where is a integer such that
. Setting
it leads us to
. By definition of
and (21), it follows that
the last series converges, because of
.
The next theorem is a fractional variant of Hörmander multiplier theorem.
Theorem 7 Let
be such that
for
and let
. Then the operator
is a multiplier on
.
Proof: From Littlewood-Paley inequality (14),
Thus,
where and
is a Littlewood-Paley operator such that
given in paragraphs above. Now, we write
If , by Riesz representation theorem there exists
satisfying
and
for which
As the symbol of is
and
, for all
. The Lemma 6 gives
As , by Hardy-Littlewood theorem and Hölder’s inequality we get
because the Littlewood-Paley inequality (13) still hold with in place of
. Inserting the last inequality into (23) we have
for all . The case
follows by standard duality argument and shall be remarked only that the symbol of form adjuint operator
is
and hence is bounded by arguments above. The case
it’s a small exercise to reader.
In the next post shall be showed that fractional condition (22) implies so-called symbol Hörmander condition in Theorem 2.5 and also Minhklin condition for . Some small applications to PDEs equations will be mentioned finally.
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