On the vector valued Hausdorff-Young inequality (Q1127062)

The paper under review presents a study of the vector valued Fourier transform and deals with a possible analog of the Hausdorff- Young inequality. Let \(G\) be a locally compact abelian group, \(\widehat G\) its dual and \({\mathcal F}_G\) the Fourier transform on \(G\). Let \(1\leq p\leq 2\) and \(p'\) denotes the conjugate exponent. The Hausdorff-Young inequality for complex valued functions on a group states that \[ \| {\mathcal F}_Gf\| _{L^{p'}(\widehat G)}\leq C \| f\| _{L^p(G)}. \] An obvious generalization is to deal with Banach space valued functions instead of complex valued ones. Let \(E\) be a complex Banach space. The question is now to decide whether the Fourier transform can be extended to a bounded operator \[ {\mathcal F}_G: L^p(G,E)\mapsto L^{p'}(\widehat G,E). \] Let \(M(G,E,p)\) be the operator norm of \({\mathcal F}_G\). A Banach space \(E\) is said to be of \(G\)-Fourier type \(p\) in case the norm \(M(G,E,p)\) is finite. The largest part of this paper considers different bounds \(M(G,E,p)\) as the group changes. In particular the possibility to deduce the inequality for open subgroups as well as for quotient groups arising from compact subgroups is secured. A large body of results concerns the classical groups \({\mathbb{T}}^n\), \({\mathbb{R}}^n\) and \({\mathbb{Z}}_k\). The other results deal with questions on how the Fourier type may be established and to what extent a smaller number of test groups would suffice.