Lower bound of Riesz transform kernels and commutator theorems on stratified nilpotent Lie groups

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Abstract: We provide a study of the Riesz transforms on stratified nilpotent Lie groups, and obtain a certain version of the pointwise lower bound of the Riesz transform kernel. Then we establish the characterisation of the BMO space on stratified nilpotent Lie groups via the boundedness of the commutator of the Riesz transforms and the BMO function. This extends the well-known Coifman, Rochberg, Weiss theorem from Euclidean space to the setting of stratified nilpotent Lie groups. In particular, these results apply to the well-known example of the Heisenberg group. As an application, we also study the curl operator on the Heisenberg group and stratified nilpotent Lie groups, and establish the div-curl lemma with respect to the Hardy space on stratified nilpotent Lie groups.


A connected, simply connected nilpotent Lie group $G$ is said to be stratified if its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ of left-invariant vector fields admits the stratification $\mathfrak{g}=\oplus_{i=1}^k V_i$, where $[V_1,V_i]=V_{i+1}$, $1\le i\le k-1$. Let $\{X_j\}_1^n$ be a basis of $\mathfrak{g}$ identified through the exponential map with $G$ and let $\Delta=\sum_1^n X_j^2$ be the sublaplacian on $G$. In the paper under review, the authors study the Riesz transforms $R_j$, $j=1,\ldots,n$, formally defined by $R_j=X_j(-\Delta)^{-1/2}$. The problem of $L^p$ boundedness, $1<p<\infty$, of such transforms was widely studied, not only in the Euclidean case but also in other different settings, for instance, in the case of nilpotent Lie groups [\textit{N. Lohoué}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 301, 559--560 (1985; Zbl 0582.43003)]. In the context of the Heisenberg group, the $L^p$ bound was proved to be independent of the dimension [\textit{T. Coulhon} et al., Math. Ann. 305, No. 2, 369--379 (1996; Zbl 0859.22006)]. \par The first of the two main results of the paper under review furnishes a lower bound of the kernel $K_j(g_1,g_2)$, $g_1,g_2\in G$, where $K_j$ is the kernel associated with $R_j$. The second result establishes an $L^p$ boundedness, $1<p<\infty$, of the commutator operator $f\to [b,R_j]f$, where $b\in \text{BMO}(G)$. More specifically, it is proved that the $L^p$ norm of this operator is comparable with $\|b\|_{\text{BMO}(G)}$. As an application of the obtained results the \textit{curl} operator on the Heisenberg groups and, more generally, on stratified Lie groups is studied.




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