We define partial spectral integrals $S_R$ on the Heisenberg group by means of localizations to isotropic or anisotropic dilates of suitable star-shaped subsets V containing the joint spectrum of the partial sub-Laplacians and the central derivative. Under the assumption that an L²-function f lies in the logarithmic Sobolev space given by $log(2+L_{\alpha })f\in L²$, where $L_{\alpha }$ is a suitable “generalized” sub-Laplacian associated to the dilation structure, we show that $S_{R}f\left(x\right)$ converges a.e. to f(x) as R → ∞.

Let $ℒ$ be a right-invariant sub-Laplacian on a connected Lie group $G,$ and let $S_{R}f:={\int }_0^{R}d{E}_{\lambda }f,R\ge 0,$ denote the associated “spherical partial sums,” where $ℒ={\int }_0^{\infty }\lambda d{E}_{\lambda }$ is the spectral resolution of $ℒ.$ We prove that $S_{R}f\left(x\right)$ converges a.e. to $f\left(x\right)$ as $R\to \infty$ under the assumption $log(2+ℒ)f\in L^2\left(G\right).$

The maximal operator S⁎ for the spherical summation operator (or disc multiplier) $S_R$ associated with the Jacobi transform through the defining relation $\widehat{S_{R}f}\left(\lambda \right)=1_{\left|\lambda \right|\le R}f̂\left(t\right)$ for a function f on ℝ is shown to be bounded from $L^p(ℝ₊,d\mu )$ into $L^p(ℝ,d\mu )+L²(ℝ,d\mu )$ for (4α + 4)/(2α + 3) < p ≤ 2. Moreover S⁎ is bounded from $L^{p₀,1}(ℝ₊,d\mu )$ into $L^{p₀,\infty }(ℝ,d\mu )+L²(ℝ,d\mu )$. In particular ${S_{R}f\left(t\right)}_{R>0}$ converges almost everywhere towards f, for $f\in L^p(ℝ₊,d\mu )$, whenever (4α + 4)/(2α + 3) < p ≤ 2.