Let L be the distinguished Laplacian on certain semidirect products of ℝ by ℝⁿ which are of ax + b type. We prove pointwise estimates for the convolution kernels of spectrally localized wave operators of the form $e^{it\surd L}\psi (\surd L/\lambda )$ for arbitrary time t and arbitrary λ > 0, where ψ is a smooth bump function supported in [-2,2] if λ ≤ 1 and in [1,2] if λ ≥ 1. As a corollary, we reprove a basic multiplier estimate of Hebisch and Steger [Math. Z. 245 (2003)] for this particular class of groups, and derive Sobolev...

We show that if ϕ is a continuous homomorphism between weighted convolution algebras on ℝ⁺, then its extension to the corresponding measure algebras is always weak* continuous. A key step in the proof is showing that our earlier result that normalized powers of functions in a convolution algebra on ℝ⁺ go to zero weak* is also true for most measures in the corresponding measure algebra. For some algebras, we can determine precisely which measures have normalized powers converging to zero weak*. We...

Radial convolution operators on free groups with nonnegative kernel of weak type (2,2) and of restricted weak type (2,2) are characterized. Estimates of weak type (p,p) are obtained as well for 1 < p < 2.

It is shown that if G is a weakly amenable unimodular group then the Banach algebra $A_p^r\left(G\right)=A_p\cap L^r\left(G\right)$, where $A_p\left(G\right)$ is the Figà-Talamanca-Herz Banach algebra of G, is a dual Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property if 1 ≤ r ≤ max(p,p’). This does not hold if p = 2 and r > 2.

Using known results on operator-valued Fourier multipliers on vector-valued function spaces, we give necessary or sufficient conditions for the well-posedness of the second order degenerate equations (P₂): d/dt (Mu’)(t) = Au(t) + f(t) (0 ≤ t ≤ 2π) with periodic boundary conditions u(0) = u(2π), (Mu’)(0) = (Mu’)(2π), in Lebesgue-Bochner spaces $L^p(,X)$, periodic Besov spaces $B_{p,q}^s(,X)$ and periodic Triebel-Lizorkin spaces $F_{p,q}^s(,X)$, where A and M are closed operators in a Banach space X satisfying D(A) ⊂ D(M). Our results...