
RIESZ MEANS AND BILINEAR RIESZ MEANS ON M´
ETIVIER GROUPS
MIN WANG1AND HUA ZHU1,∗
Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the Lp-boundedness of the Riesz means and the Lp1×
Lp2→Lpboundedness of the bilinear Riesz means on M´etivier groups. M´etivier groups are
generalization of Heisenberg groups and general H-type groups. Because general M´etivier groups
only satisfy the non-degeneracy condition and have high-dimensional centre, we have to use different
methods and techniques from those on Heisenberg groups and H-type groups.
1. Introduction
M´etivier groups, introduced by M´etivier [9] in his study of analytic hypoellipticity, are two-step
nilpotent Lie groups satisfying a non-degeneracy condition. They are also characterized by the
property that the quotients with respect to the hyperplanes contained in the centre are general
Heisenberg groups. H-type groups, introduced by Kaplan [5], are typical examples of M´etivier
groups, but there are many M´etivier groups which are not isomorphic to H-type groups, for exam-
ple, see [12]. Heisenberg groups are the simplest M´etivier groups. Casarino and Ciatti [2] investi-
gated the spectral resolution of the sub-Laplacian on M´etivier groups, and proved a Stein-Tomas
restriction theorem in terms of the mixed norms. So, we can use the the spectral decomposition
of the sub-Laplacian to define the Riesz means and the bilinear Riesz means on M´etivier groups.
Mauceri [8] and M¨uller [11] obtained the same results on the Lp-boundedness of the Riesz means
on Heisenberg groups by using different methods. We proved the Lp1×Lp2→Lpboundedness
of the bilinear Riesz means on Heisenberg groups [6]. To extend these results to general M´etivier
groups, we notice that there are two essential difficulties: one is that Heisenberg groups have one
dimensional centre but the centre dimension of M´etivier groups is in general bigger than one; the
other is that on H-type groups, the non-degeneracy condition becomes a better orthogonality con-
dition, which is not true on general M´etivier groups. Therefore, in this paper, we shall introduce
some different techniques from those used in [8] or [11] and [6] to obtain the Lp- boundedness of
the Riesz means and Lp1×Lp2→Lpboundedness of the bilinear Riesz means on M´etivier groups.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we recall the spectral decomposition of the
sub-Laplacian on Metivier groups and define the Riesz means and bilinear Riesz means. In Section
3, we give the pointwise estimates for the kernel of the Riesz means and the kerner of the bilinear
Riesz means. In Section 4, we present the Lp-boundedness of the Riesz means. In the rest of this
paper, we study the Lp1×Lp2→Lpboundedness of the bilinear Riesz means, which for the case
of 1 ≤p1, p2≤2 in Section 5 and for some particular cases in Section 6. In Section 7, we outline
the bilinear interpolation method and obtain the results in other cases.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 43A80, 43A85, 43A45.
Key words and phrases. M´etivier groups, Riesz means, bilinear Riesz means, restriction theorem.
1 These two authors contributed to this work equally and should be regarded as co-first authors.
∗This author is supported by “Young top-notch talent” Program concerning teaching faculty development of
universities affiliated to Beijing Municipal Government(2018-2020).
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arXiv:2210.14673v1 [math.FA] 26 Oct 2022