We consider elementary operators $x\mapsto {\sum }_{j=1}^n{a}_{j}x{b}_j$, acting on a unital Banach algebra, where $a_j$ and $b_j$ are separately commuting families of generalized scalar elements. We give an ascent estimate and a lower bound estimate for such an operator. Additionally, we give a weak variant of the Fuglede-Putnam theorem for an elementary operator with strongly commuting families $a_j$ and $b_j$, i.e. $a_j=a_j^{\text{'}}+i{a}_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ ($b_j=b_j^{\text{'}}+i{b}_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$), where all $a_j^{\text{'}}$ and $a_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ ($b_j^{\text{'}}$ and $b_j^{\text{'}\text{'}}$) commute. The main tool is an L¹ estimate of the Fourier transform of a certain class of $C_{cpt}^{\infty }$ functions...

We investigate the Fourier transforms of functions in the Sobolev spaces $W_1^{r_1,...,r_n}$. It is proved that for any function $f\in W_1^{r_1,...,r_n}$ the Fourier transform f̂ belongs to the Lorentz space $L^{n/r,1}$, where $r=n{({\sum }_{j=1}^{n}1/r_j)}^{-1}\le n$. Furthermore, we derive from this result that for any mixed derivative $D^{s}f(f\in C_0^{\infty },s=(s_1,...,s_n))$ the weighted norm $\parallel {\left(D^{s}f\right)}^{\wedge }{\parallel }_{L^1\left(w\right)}(w\left(\xi \right)={\left|\xi \right|}^{-n})$ can be estimated by the sum of $L^1$-norms of all pure derivatives of the same order. This gives an answer to a question posed by A. Pełczyński and M. Wojciechowski.