Maximal function and multiplier theorem for weighted space on the unit sphere (Q996255)

The purpose of this paper is to establish the boundedness of maximal functions on the unit sphere for a family of weight functions invariant under a finite reflection group, and then to prove a multiplier theorem for the orthogonal expansions with respect to the weight function on the unit sphere. Let \(S^d=\{x:\,\| x\| =1\}\) be the unit sphere in \(\mathbb {R}^{d+1}\). The weight function \(h_{\kappa}\) is defined by \[ h_{\kappa}(x)=\prod_{v\in R_+}| <x,v>| ^{\kappa_v},\;\;x\in \mathbb {R}^{d+1}, \] where \(R_+\) is a fixed positive root system of \(\mathbb {R}^{d+1}\), and \(\kappa\) is a nonnegative multiplicity function \(v\mapsto\kappa_v\) defined on \(R_+\) with the property that \(\kappa_u=\kappa_v\), whenever \(\sigma_u\) is conjugate to \(\sigma_v\) in the reflection group \(G\) generated by the reflections \(\{\sigma_v:\,v\in R_+\}\). The paper considers the weighted space on \(S^d\) with respect to the measure \(h_{\kappa}^2d\omega\), where \(d\omega\) is the surface measure on \(S^d\). For studying the \(h\)-harmonic expansion, the maximal operator \(\mathcal M_{\kappa}\) is defined by \[ \mathcal M_{\kappa}f(x):=\sup_{0<\theta\leq \pi}\frac{\int_{S^d}| f(y)| V_{\kappa}[\chi_{B(x,\theta)}](y)h_{\kappa}^2(y)\,d\omega(y)} {\int_{S^d}V_{\kappa}[\chi_{B(x,\theta)}](y)h_{\kappa}^2(y)\,d\omega(y)}, \] where \(B(x,\theta):=\{y\in B^{d+1}:\,<x,y>\geq \cos\theta\},\;B^{d+1}:=\{x:\, \| x\| \leq 1\}\subset \mathbb {R}^{d+1}\), and \(V_{\kappa}\) is the intertwining operator. The authors prove that the maximal operator \(\mathcal M_{\kappa}\) is bounded from \(L^1(h_{\kappa}^2;\,S^d)\) to \(L^{1,\infty}(h_{\kappa}^2;\,S^d)\) and is bounded on \(L^p(h_{\kappa}^2;\,S^d)\). In particular, similar result are established for the product weight under the reflection group \(G=\mathbb {Z}_2^{d+1}\). As an application, the authors give sufficient conditions on a sequence of real numbers \(\{\mu_j\}_{j=0}^{\infty}\) for an \(L^p(h_{\kappa}^2;\,S^d)\) multiplier (\(1<p<\infty\)). Moreover, similar results about maximal function and multipliers are also established for the weighted space on the unit ball and on the standard simplex.