Smoothness of a function and the growth of its Fourier transform or its Fourier coefficients (Q976200)

In a recent paper, \textit{W. O. Bray} and \textit{M. A. Pinsky} [J. Funct. Anal. 255, No. 9, 2265--2285 (2008; Zbl 1159.42006)] estimate the growth of \(\widehat{f}(\xi)\), the Fourier transform of \(f(x)\) where \(x \in \mathbb{R}^d\), by some moduli of smoothness. In this paper it is shown that noticeably better results can be derived as an immediate corollary of previous theorems in a paper by \textit{F. Dai} and the author [J. Approximation Theory 131, No. 2, 268--283 (2004; Zbl 1109.41010)] on combinations of multivariate averages. The improvements include dealing with higher levels of smoothness and using the fact that for higher dimensions (when \(d \geq 2\)) the description of smoothness requires less information. Using a similar technique, also relations between the smoothness of \(f(x)\) for respectively \(x \in S^{d-1}\) and \( x \in T^d\), and the growth of the coefficients of the expansion by respectively spherical harmonic and trigonometric polynomials are deduced. Here \(S^{d-1}\) denotes the unit sphere in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), while \(T^d\) denotes the torus.