Nikolskii inequality for lacunary spherical polynomials

Abstract

We prove that for $d\ge 2$, the asymptotic order of the usual Nikolskii inequality on ${\mathbb{S}}^d$ (also known as the reverse Hölder's inequality) can be significantly improved in many cases, for lacunary spherical polynomials of the form $f={\sum }_{j=0}^m{f}_{n_j}$ with $f_{n_j}$ being a spherical harmonic of degree $n_j$ and $n_{j+1}-n_j\ge 3$. As is well known, for $d=1$, the Nikolskii inequality for trigonometric polynomials on the unit circle does not have such a phenomenon.

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