On a recurrence formula for elementary spherical functions on symmetric spaces and its applications to multipliers for the spherical Fourier transform.
We study the absolute continuity of the convolution of two orbital measures on the symmetric space SO₀(p,q)/SO(p)×SO(q), q > p. We prove sharp conditions on X,Y ∈ for the existence of the density of the convolution measure. This measure intervenes in the product formula for the spherical functions. We show that the sharp criterion developed for SO₀(p,q)/SO(p)×SO(q) also serves for the spaces SU(p,q)/S(U(p)×U(q)) and Sp(p,q)/Sp(p)×Sp(q), q > p. We moreover apply our results to the study of...