Littlewood-Paley theory for orthogonal expansions associated with root systems

Abstract

We introduce the non-symmetric heat and Poisson semigroups associated with the Heckman-Opdam Laplacian in the compact setting. Based on the Poisson semigroup, we study several Littlewood-Paley $g$-functions in the spirit of Stein's work for compact Lie groups and prove their $L^p$-boundedness for $1<p\le 2$ and for some of them also for $1<p<\infty$. As an application, we define associated Riesz transforms and imaginary powers and prove their $L^p$-continuity for $1<p<\infty$. Passing to the average with respect to the action of the associated reflection group, we obtain $L^p$-boundedness of $g$-functions for the symmetric Poisson semigroup for all $1<p<\infty$. In particular, our framework covers the Littlewood-Paley-Stein theory for Jacobi polynomial expansions and corresponding direct product settings as special cases.

28 pages; Revised and corrected version with somewhat weaker results in Theorem 5.2. A new section on the symmetric case is added