Smooth orthogonal projections on sphere (Q2257718)

Smooth projections on the real line were studied systematically by \textit{P. Auscher} et al. [in: Wavelets: A tutorial in theory and applications. Boston, MA etc.: Academic Press. 237--256 (1992; Zbl 0767.42009)] in their study of local sine and cosine bases of \textit{R. R. Coifman} and \textit{Y. Meyer} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 312, No. 3, 259--261 (1991; Zbl 0748.42012)]. By tensoring, their construction can be extended to \(\mathbb R^d\). This paper focuses on the construction of a decomposition of the identity operator on the sphere \(S^d\) as a sum of smooth orthogonal projections having certain localization properties, and it is organized as follows: Section 1 is introductory. In Section 2, the authors introduce some modifications of the constructions of smooth projections on the real line described in [\textit{E. Hernández} and \textit{G. Weiss}, A first course on wavelets. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (1996; Zbl 0885.42018)] and originally introduced in the above mentioned paper of Auscher et al., to extend them to weighted \(L^2\) spaces. They use this construction in Section 3 to introduce smooth latitudinal projections on the sphere, and in Section 4 they describe a procedure for lifting an operator acting on \(S^{d-1}\) to \(S^d\), and show that this lifting preserves smoothness of functions away from two poles of \(S^d\). These results are used in Section 5 to construct a family of smooth orthogonal projections corresponding to a partition of the sphere into patches. In the last section, Section 6, they give applications of this result to the study of function spaces and Parseval frames on the sphere.