Boundedness of iterated spherical average on modulation spaces (Q2199968)

In this paper the author studies the boundedness of the iterated spherical average \(\Delta(A_{1})^N\) on modulation spaces \(M^{s}_{pq}(\mathbb{R}^n)\), where \(\Delta\) is the Laplace operator. Let \(\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\) be the unit sphere in the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^n,\ n\geq 2\). The average operator of functions \(f\) on the unit sphere is defined as \[ A_{1}(f)(x)=\int_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}f(x-y^\prime)\ dy^\prime, \] where \(dy'\) is the normalized surface Lebesgue measure. The main theorem is as following: Theorem. Let \(\sigma=2-\frac{n-1}{2}N\) and \(1 \leq p_{1},p_{2}, q_{1}, q_{2} \leq \infty\),\ \(s_{1}, s_{2} \in \mathbb{R}\). When \(q_{1} \leq q_{2}\), the iterated spherical average \(\Delta(A_{1})^N\) is bounded from \(M^{s_{1}}_{p_{1}q_{1}}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) to \(M^{s_{2}}_{p_{2}q_{2}}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) if and only if \(p_{1}\leq p_{2}\) and \(s_{1} \geq s_{2}+\sigma\). When \(q_{1} > q_{2}\), the iterated spherical average \(\Delta(A_{1})^N\) is bounded from \(M^{s_{1}}_{p_{1}q_{1}}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) to \(M^{s_{2}}_{p_{2}q_{2}}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) if and only if \(p_{1}\leq p_{2}\) and \(s_{1}+\frac{n}{q_{1}} > s_{2}+\sigma+\frac{n}{q_{2}}\).