Harmonic analysis on nilpotent groups and singular integrals. III: Fractional integration along manifolds (Q1825294)

This article continues the series of papers by the two authors devoted to the study of (singular) convolution operators on nilpotent Lie groups, whose first two articles appeared [ibid. 73, 179-194 (1987; Zbl 0622.42010) and 78, 56-84 (1988; Zbl 0645.42019)]. In this third paper, the authors assume that the underlying nilpotent Lie group G is homogeneous, i.e. endowed with automorphic dilations, and they investigate operators of convolution by ``fractional integration kernels'' \(K^{\alpha}\) along homogeneous, connected, analytic manifolds V in G not containing 0. These are locally finite measures \(K^{\alpha}\) supported on \(V\cup \{0\}\) having smooth densities on V, which are homogeneous of degree -Q(1-\(\alpha)\), \(0<Re \alpha \leq 1\), in the sense of distributions, where Q denotes the homogeneous dimension of G. The following three interrelated problems, whose formulation is taken from the introduction to the paper, are discussed: (a) find the \(L^ p\)- L\({}^ q\)-boundedness properties of the corresponding convolution operators; (b) find the \(L^ 2\)-boundedness properties of the ``highly singular integral'' operators obtained by composing a fractional integration along V with a fractional derivation of complementary homogeneity; (c) find the \(L^ 2\)-boundedness properties of oscillatory integral operators of the form \[ Tf(x)=\int_{V}f(xy^{- 1})e^{iP(x,y)}dK^{\alpha}(y), \] where P is a real polynomial.