Some Estimates for Radial Fourier Multiplier Operators with Slowly Decaying Kernels (Q4387592)

The Bochner-Riesz operator \(T_\delta\) is defined by \[ \widehat T_\delta f(\xi)= (1-|\xi|^2)^\delta \widehat f(\xi),\quad\delta> 0. \] It is a well-known conjecture that \(T_\delta\) is a bounded operator on \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)\) if \(n\geq 2\), and \(p\) is in the interval (\(2n/(n+ 1+ 2\delta)\), \(2n/(n- 1-2\delta)\)). This conjecture was proved to be true when \(n= 2\). If \(T_\delta\) is restricted to radial functions then the conjecture is known to be true in all dimensions. In this paper, the author considers the restriction to radial functions of a class of radial Fourier multiplier operators containing the Bochner-Riesz operator and proves that the maximal operators of the multiplier operators are bounded on the radial \(L^p\) space when \(p\) is in the same range of the above conjecture, which also leads to a pointwise convergence result.