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Math. Model. Nat. Phenom. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013, pp. 175–192 DOI: 10.1051/mmnp/20138113
Boundedness of Pseudo-Differential Operators on Lp, Sobolev and Modulation Spaces
S. Molahajloo1∗, G.E. Pfander2 1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L3N6, Canada 2 School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, 28759 Bremen, Germany
Abstract. We introduce new classes of modulation spaces over phase space. By means of the Kohn-Nirenberg correspondence, these spaces induce norms on pseudo-differential operators that bound their operator norms on Lp–spaces, Sobolev spaces, and modulation spaces.
Keywords and phrases: pseudo-differential operators, modulation spaces, Sobolev spaces, short–time Fourier transforms
Mathematics Subject Classification: 47G30, 42B35, 35S05, 46E35
1. Introduction
Pseudo-differential operators are discussed in various areas of mathematics and mathematical physics, for example, in partial differential equations, time-frequency analysis, and quantum mechanics [18,19,21, 32,34]. They are defined as follows. Let σ be a tempered distribution on phase space R2d, that is, σ ∈ S′(R2d) where S(R2d) denotes the space of Schwartz class functions. The pseudo-differential operator Tσ corresponding to the symbol σ is given by T f(x)= σ(x,ξ) f(ξ) e2πix ξ dξ, f ∈S(Rd). σ Here, f denotes the Fourier transform of f, namely, f(ξ)= Ff(ξ)= f(x) e−2πix ξ dx. One of the central goals in the study of pseudo-differential operators is to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for pseudo-differential operators to extend boundedly to function spaces such as Lp(Rd) [3,5, 20,33]. A classical result in this direction is the following. For m ∈ R, we let Sm consist of all functions σ in C∞(Rd×Rd) such that for any multi-index (α,β) there is Cα,β > 0 with β α m−|α| ∂x ∂ξ σ (x,ξ) ≤ Cα,β(1 + |ξ|) . 0 d p d For σ ∈ S (R ) it is known that T σ acts boundedly on L (R ), p ∈ (1, ∞). A consequence of this result m p d p d p d is that if σ ∈ S , then Tσ is a bounded operator mapping Hs+m(R ) to Hs (R ), where Hs (R ) is the
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