Giancarlo Mauceri

In this note we prove various sharp boundedness results on suitable Hardy type spaces for Riesz transforms of arbitrary order on noncompact symmetric spaces of arbitrary rank.

In this paper we consider a complete connected noncompact Riemannian manifold M with bounded geometry and spectral gap. We prove that the imaginary powers of the Laplacian and the Riesz transform are bounded from the Hardy space X^1(M), introduced in previous work of the authors, to L^1(M).

In this paper we consider a complete connected noncompact Riemannian manifold M with bounded geometry and spectral gap. We realize the dual space Y^h(M) of the Hardy-type space X^h(M), introduced in a previous paper of the authors, as the class of all locally square integrable functions satisfying suitable BMO-like conditions, where the role of the constants is played by the space of global k-quasi-harmonic functions. Furthermore we prove that Y^h(M) is also the dual of the space X^k_fin(M) of finite linear combination of X^k-atoms. As a consequence, if Z is a Banach space and T is a Z-valued linear operator defined on X^k_fin(M), then T extends to a bounded operator from X^k(M) to Z if and only if it is uniformly bounded on X^k-atoms. To obtain these results we prove the global solvability of the generalized Poisson equation L^ku=f with f in L^2_loc(M) and we study some properties of generalized Bergman spaces of harmonic functions on geodesic balls.

An atomic Hardy space H 1 ( γ ) H^1(\gamma ) associated to the Gauss measure γ \gamma in R n \mathbb {R}^n has been introduced by the first two authors. We first prove that it is equivalent to use ( 1 , r ) (1,r) - or ( 1 , ∞ ) (1,\infty ) -atoms to define this H 1 ( γ ) H^1(\gamma ) . For n = 1 n=1 , a maximal function characterization of H 1 ( γ ) H^1(\gamma ) is found. In arbitrary dimension, we give a description of the nonnegative functions in H 1 ( γ ) H^1(\gamma ) and use it to prove that L p ( γ ) ⊂ H 1 ( γ ) L^p(\gamma )\subset H^1(\gamma ) for 1 > p ≤ ∞ 1>p\le \infty .

In dimension one we give a maximal function characterisation of the Hardy space H^1(g) for the Gauss measure g, introduced by G. Mauceri and S. Meda. In arbitrary dimension, we give a description of the nonnegative functions in H^1(g) and use it to prove that L^p(g) is a contained in H^1(g) for 1<p\le\infty.

Let M be a space of homogeneous type and denote by F^\infty_{cont}(M) the space of finite linear combinations of continuous (1,\infty)-atoms. In this note we give a simple function theoretic proof of the equivalence on F^\infty_{cont}(M) of the H^1-norm and the norm defined in terms of finite linear combinations of atoms. The result holds also for the class of nondoubling metric measure spaces considered in previous works of A. Carbonaro and the authors.

In this paper we consider a complete connected noncompact Riemannian manifold M with Ricci curvature bounded from below, positive injectivity radius and spectral gap b. We introduce a sequence X^1(M), X^2(M), ... of new Hardy spaces on M, the sequence Y^1(M/, Y^2(M), ... of their dual spaces, and show that these spaces may be used to obtain endpoint estimates for purely imaginary powers of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and for more general spectral multipliers associated to the Laplace--Beltrami operator L on M. Under the additional condition that the volume of the geodesic balls of radius r is controlled by C r^a e^{2\sqrt{b} r} for some real number a and for all large r, we prove also an endpoint result for first order Riesz transforms D L^{-1/2}. In particular, these results apply to Riemannian symmetric spaces of the noncompact type.