Vector-valued multipliers (Q2567463)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact Abelian group and let \(H\) be a separable Hilbert space. For \(1 \leq p < \infty\) let \(L^p(G,H)\) denote the \(L^p\)-space defined with respect to the Haar measure on \(G\). For \(f \in L^1(G,H)\) define the Fourier transform of \(f\) by \(\widehat{f} (\gamma) = \int \overline{\gamma (x)} f(x) \,dx\), for all \(\gamma\) in \(\Gamma\), the dual group of \(G\). The map \(f \rightarrow \widehat{f}\) is an isometry of \(L^1 \cap L^2(G,H)\) into \(L^2(\Gamma, H)\) with respect to the \(L^2\)-norms. It extends to an isometry of \(L^2(G,H)\) onto \(L^2(\Gamma, H)\). A continuous linear operator \(T: L^p(G,H) \rightarrow L^p(G,H)\) is called a Fourier \(p\)-multiplier operator if there exists a measurable operator-valued function \(\Phi \colon \Gamma \rightarrow {\mathcal L} (H)\) such that \(\Phi\) is essentially bounded in the operator norm of \({\mathcal L}(H)\) and for each \(f \in L^2 \cap L^p(G,H)\) the equality \(\widehat{Tf}(\gamma) = \Phi (\gamma) \widehat{f}(\gamma)\) holds almost everywhere on \(\Gamma\). The function \(\Phi\) is called the \(p\)-multiplier corresponding to \(T\). In this paper the author surveys results about \(p\)-multipliers which are given in other papers. In Section 2 results on vector-valued \(L^p\)-multipliers given in a paper of \textit{G. I. Gaudry, B. R. F. Jefferies} and \textit{W. J. Ricker} [Diss. Math. 385, 77 p. (2000; Zbl 0966.46023)] are described. These results are compared to those for scalar multipliers. Now assume that \(G\) is also noncompact. The definition of multipliers of \(L^1 \cap L^p(G,H), L^1 \cap C_0 (G,H)\) and \(A^p(G,H)\) is similar to that of \(L^p(G,H)\). In Section 3 various results about multipliers of these spaces are given. All results in this section are discussed in detail in the author's paper ``Some multiplier results on certain Banach spaces of Hilbert space valued functions'', which is to appear in Proceedings of the International Seminar on Mathematics and Applications. In Section 4 results concerning isometric multipliers of many of the spaces studied in this paper are given. The results in this section are discussed in detail in the forthcoming paper of \textit{U. B. Tewari} and \textit{P. K. Chaurasia} [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Math. Sci. 115, 103--109 (2005; Zbl 1083.43005)]. This paper is based on a talk given at the `Eleventh Ramanujan symposium on recent trends in operator theory and Banach algebras'.