Idempotent multipliers for \(L^p(\mathbb{R})\) (Q1973463)

The authors study idempotent \(L^p\) Fourier multipliers, i.e., Fourier multipliers bounded on \(L^p\) whose symbol is a characteristic function. They show that the class of such functions is strictly decreasing in \(p\) for \(2 < p < \infty\), using methods similar to those of Bourgain in resolving the analogous problem for \(\Lambda_p\) sets.