Concentration estimates for finite expansions of spherical harmonics on two-point homogeneous spaces via the large sieve principle (Q2059804)

The main goal of the authors is to extend the results of \textit{M.~Speckbacher} and \textit{T.~Hrycak} [J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 26, No.~3, Paper No.~38, 18~p. (2020; Zbl 1442.42067)] from the 2-sphere to spheres in arbitrary dimensions and, more generally, to compact two-point homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. In the classical sense, given the trigonometric polynomial \(f(t)=\sum_{k=1}^K\,a_k\,e^{2\,\pi\,i\,k\,t}\), a positive measure $\mu$ and \(0<\delta<1\), then (from an unpublished work by Bombieri) \begin{align*} \int_0^1\,|f(t)|^2\,dt\leq (K+2/\delta)\, \sup_{t\in[0,1]}\,\mu([t,t+\delta])\,\int_0^1\,|f(t)|^2\,dt. \end{align*} If \(\mu=\chi_\Omega(t)\,dt\), then this becomes the concentration estimate \begin{align*} \int_\Omega\,|f(t)|^2\,dt\leq 3\,\rho(\Omega,K) \, \sup_{t\in[0,1]}\,\mu([t,t+\delta])\,\int_0^1\,|f(t)|^2\,dt \end{align*} where \(\rho(\Omega,K)=K\,\sup_{t\in[0,1]}\,\mu(\Omega\cap[t,t+1/K])\) is the maximum Nyquist density. In a series of papers known as the Bell-lab papers, Landau, Slepian and Pollak developed a uniform approach for ``concentration problems''. In the more general setting of this paper, \(dt\) is replaced by the Haar measure, the trigonometric polynomials are replaced by finite spherical harmonics expansions, the intervals \([t, t + 1/K]\) are replaced by geodesic caps and the maximum Nyquist density is defined in terms of the geodesic caps. The authors' proofs ``use estimates of the spherical harmonics basis coefficients of certain zonal filters and an ordering result for Jacobi polynomials for arguments close to one.''