Some remarks on Bochner-Riesz means (Q4500534)

Let \(\Omega\) be a Riemannian manifold and \(P\) a differential operator of order \(d\), which is self-adjoint and nonnegative. The spectral resolution of \(P\) is \[ Pf=\int_{0}^{\infty}\lambda dE_{\lambda}f. \] The Bochner-Riesz means of order \(\delta\geq 0\) of a function \(f\) is \[ S_{R}^{\delta}f= \int_{0}^{R}\left(1-{\lambda\over R}\right)^\delta dE_{\lambda}f. \] The aim is to study the \(L^{p}\) convergence of \(S_{R}^{\delta}f\) to \(f\) as \(R\rightarrow\infty\). A nessecary condition for \(L^{p}\) convergence is that \(\delta>\delta (p)=\max(n|1/p-1/2|,0)\). The Bochner-Riesz conjecture is that this should also be sufficient, and this has been proved in some special cases. The main theorem of this paper states that there is \(L^{p}\) convergence when \(\delta>\delta (p)+1/2\), under some further assumptions.