In the first part of this paper we study the local and global solvability and the hypoellipticity of a family of left-invariant sublaplacians ${\mathcal{L}}_{\alpha }$ on the spheres $S^{2n+1}\simeq U\left(n+1\right)/U\left(n\right)$. In the second part, we introduce a larger family of left-invariant sublaplacians ${\mathcal{L}}_{\alpha ,\beta }$ on $S^3\simeq SU\left(2\right)$ and study the corresponding properties by means of a Lie group contraction to the Heisenberg group.

Let ${(X,\varrho ,\mu )}_{d,\theta }$ be a space of homogeneous type, i.e. X is a set, ϱ is a quasi-metric on X with the property that there are constants θ ∈ (0,1] and C₀ > 0 such that for all x,x’,y ∈ X, $|\varrho (x,y)-\varrho (x^{\text{'}},y)|\le C₀\varrho {(x,x^{\text{'}})}^{\theta }{[\varrho (x,y)+\varrho (x^{\text{'}},y)]}^{1-\theta }$, and μ is a nonnegative Borel regular measure on X such that for some d > 0 and all x ∈ X, $\mu \left(y\in X:\varrho (x,y)<r\right)\sim r^d$. Let ε ∈ (0,θ], |s| < ε and maxd/(d+ε),d/(d+s+ε) < q ≤ ∞. The author introduces new inhomogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin spaces $F_{\infty q}^s\left(X\right)$ and establishes their frame characterizations by first establishing a Plancherel-Pólya-type inequality...

New norms for some distributions on spaces of homogeneous type which include some fractals are introduced. Using inhomogeneous discrete Calderón reproducing formulae and the Plancherel-Pólya inequalities on spaces of homogeneous type, the authors prove that these norms give a new characterization for the Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces with p, q > 1 and can be used to introduce new inhomogeneous Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces with p, q ≤ 1 on spaces of homogeneous type. Moreover, atomic...

Let n ≥ 1, d = 2n, and let (x,y) ∈ ℝⁿ × ℝⁿ be a generic point in ℝ²ⁿ. The twisted Laplacian $L=-1/2{\sum }_{j=1}^n[({\partial }_{x_j}+i{y}_j)²+({\partial }_{y_j}-i{x}_j)²]$ has the spectrum n + 2k = λ²: k a nonnegative integer. Let $P_{\lambda }$ be the spectral projection onto the (infinite-dimensional) eigenspace. We find the optimal exponent ϱ(p) in the estimate $\left|\right|P_{\lambda }{u\left|\right|}_{L^p\left({ℝ}^d\right)}\lesssim {\lambda }^{\varrho \left(p\right)}{\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{L²\left({ℝ}^d\right)}$ for all p ∈ [2,∞], improving previous partial results by Ratnakumar, Rawat and Thangavelu, and by Stempak and Zienkiewicz. The expression for ϱ(p) is ϱ(p) = 1/p -1/2 if 2 ≤ p ≤ 2(d+1)/(d-1), ϱ(p) = (d-2)/2 - d/p if 2(d+1)/(d-1)...

For locally compact, second countable, type I groups G, we characterize all closed (two-sided) translation invariant subspaces of L²(G). We establish a similar result for K-biinvariant L²-functions (K a fixed maximal compact subgroup) in the context of semisimple Lie groups.

We consider an action of a connected compact Lie group on a Stein manifold by holomorphic transformations. We prove that the manifold is spherical if and only if there exists an antiholomorphic involution preserving each orbit. Moreover, for a spherical Stein manifold, we construct an antiholomorphic involution, which is equivariant with respect to the Weyl involution of the acting group, and show that this involution stabilizes each orbit. The construction uses some properties of spherical subgroups...