We determine the norm in $L^p\left(ℝ₊\right)$, 1 < p < ∞, of the operator $I-{ℱ}_s{ℱ}_c$, where ${ℱ}_c$ and ${ℱ}_s$ are respectively the cosine and sine Fourier transforms on the positive real axis, and I is the identity operator. This solves a problem posed in 1984 by M. S. Birman [Bir] which originated in scattering theory for unbounded obstacles in the plane. We also obtain the $L^p$-norms of the operators aI + bH, where H is the Hilbert transform (conjugate function operator) on the circle or real line, for arbitrary real a,b. Best...

Some boundedness results are established for sublinear operators on the homogeneous Herz spaces. As applications, some new theorems about the boundedness on homogeneous Herz spaces for commutators of singular integral operators are obtained.

Let T: H → H be an operator in the complex Hilbert space H. Suppose that T is square bounded in average in the sense that there exists a constant M(T) with the property that, for all natural numbers n and for all x ∈ H, the inequality $1/(n+1){\sum }_{j=0}^n\parallel T^{j}x{\parallel }^2\le M{\left(T\right)}^2\parallel x{\parallel }^2$ is satisfied. Also suppose that the adjoint T* of the operator T is square bounded in average with constant M(T*). Then the operator T is power bounded in the sense that $sup\parallel T^{i}n\parallel :n\in \mathbb{N}$ is finite. In fact the following inequality is valid for all n ∈ ℕ: ∥Tn∥ ≤ e M(T)M(T*). Suppose...

A typical wavelet system constitutes an unconditional basis for various function spaces -Lebesgue, Besov, Triebel-Lizorkin, Hardy, BMO. One of the main reasons is the frequency localization of an element from such a basis. In this paper we study a wavelet-type system, called a brushlet system. In [3] it was noticed that brushlets constitute unconditional bases for classical function spaces such as the Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov spaces. In this paper we study brushlet expansions of functions in the...