Flag Hardy space theory on Heisenberg groups and applications

Abstract

We establish a complete theory of the flag Hardy space on the Heisenberg group ${\mathbb{H}}^n$ with characterisations via atomic decompositions, area functions, square functions, maximal functions and singular integrals. We introduce several new techniques to overcome the difficulties caused by the noncommutative Heisenberg group multiplication, and the lack of a suitable Fourier transformation and Cauchy--Riemann type equations. Applications include the boundedness from the flag Hardy space to $L^1({\mathbb{H}}^n)$ of various singular integral operators that arise in complex analysis, a sharp boundedness result on the flag Hardy space of the Marcinkiewicz-type multipliers introduced by Müller, Ricci and Stein, and the decomposition of flag BMO space via singular integrals.

Revised version; minor errors corrected