Norm of the Cauchy transform (Q515971)

It is well known that for \(1<p<\infty\) the Cauchy transform \(C\) is a bounded operator from \(L^p(\mathbb{S}^n)\) to the Hardy space \(H^p(\mathbb{B}^n)\), where \(\mathbb{S}^n\) and \(\mathbb{B}^n\) denote the unit sphere and the open unit ball in \(\mathbb{C}^n\), respectively. For \(n=1\) it is also well known that its operator norm is \[ \|C\|_{L^p(\mathbb{T})\to H^p(\mathbb{D})} =\csc(\pi/p) =\frac{\Gamma(1/p)\Gamma(1/p')}{\Gamma^2(1/2)}. \] In this paper the author establishes that for \(n>1\) the operator norm of \(C\) satisfies the lower estimate \[ \|C\|_{L^p(\mathbb{S}^n)\to H^p(\mathbb{B}^n)} \geq \|B\|_{L^p(\mathbb{B}^{n-1})\to A^p(\mathbb{B}^{n-1})} \geq \tfrac{\Gamma(n/p)\Gamma(n/p')} {\Gamma^2(n/2)}, \] where \(B\) denotes the Bergman projection. The proof of the first inequality is the main result of this paper and the second inequality was proved by the author in [J. Funct. Anal. 268, No. 2, 255--277 (2015; Zbl 1310.32007)].