Boundedness of Bergman projectors on Siegel domains over polyhedral cones (Q1889441)

The Bergman space \(A_p(D)\) of a domain in \(\mathbb C^n\) is the space of holomorphic functions in \(L^p(D)\). For \(p = 2\), it is a Hilbert space with a reproducing kernel, i.e. there exists a function \(K(z, w)\), holomorphic in \(z\) and antiholomorphic in \(w\), such that \(K(\cdot, w)\in A_2(D)\) for every \(z\in D\) and \(F(z) =\int_D F(w)K(z, w)\,dw\) for every \(F\in A_2(D)\). It is known that for certain domains the Bergman projector, \(Pf(z) =\int_D f(w)K(z, w)\,dw\), is bounded on \(L^p(D)\) for \(1 < p < \infty\). This is the case for the unit disk and the upper half-plane in one complex dimension; in higher dimensions, this is known to be true for various classes of pseudo-convex domains of finite type. Recent work of D.~Békollé and his collaborators has shown that, if \(D = D_\Gamma =\mathbb R^n+i\Gamma\) is the tube domain over a simple symmetric cone \(\Gamma\subset\mathbb R^n\), there is a non-trivial range of \(p\in(1, \infty)\) for which \(P\) is not bounded. The simplest example of these cones is the circular cone in \(\mathbb R^n\) with \(n \geq3\). A partially negative result for these domains is not surprising, because it is well known that the Cauchy-Szegö projection is bounded on \(L^p(\mathbb R^n)\) only for \(p=2\). The non-zero curvature of the boundary of \(\Gamma\) is responsible of these facts: for the Cauchy-Szegö projection, this is a direct consequence of Fefferman's theorem on the ball multiplier. It must be reasonably expected that if \(\Gamma\) is a polyhedral cone, hence with a `flat' boundary, the Bergman projector is bounded on \(L^p(D_\Gamma)\) in the full range \(1 < p < \infty\). This is surely true if \(\Gamma\) is an `octant', i.e. a cartesian product of half-lines, because \(P\) is just the tensor product of Bergman projectors for the upper half-plane. For general polyhedral cones, however, such statement does not seem to be obtainable directly from the `octant' case, by means of a transference argument which works instead for the Cauchy-Szegö projector. In this paper, the authors fill this gap, by proving that the Bergman projector is in fact bounded on \(L^p(D_\Gamma)\) in the full range \(1 < p < \infty\), if \(\Gamma\) is polyhedral. The proof is rather delicate and it requires accurate considerations on the structure of polyhedral cones in general dimensions (the argument would be technically much simpler if restricted, e.g., to 3-dimensional cones). The authors also extend the same result to Siegel domains of type II associated with polyhedral cones.