Partial spectral multipliers and partial Riesz transforms for degenerate operators

Abstract

We consider degenerate differential operators of the type $A = {-\sum_{k,j=1}^d \partial_k (a_{kj} \partial_j)}$ on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ with real symmetric bounded measurable coefficients. Given a function $\chi \in C_b^\infty(\mathbb{R}^d)$ (respectively, a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega$), suppose that $(a_{kj}) \ge \mu > 0$ a.e. on $\operatorname{supp} \chi$ (respectively, a.e. on $\Omega$). We prove a spectral multiplier type result: if $F\colon [0, \infty) \to \mathbb{C}$ is such that $\sup_{t > 0} \| \varphi(.) F(t .) \|_{C^s} < \infty$ for some nontrivial function $\varphi \in C_c^\infty(0,\infty)$ and some $s > d/2$ then $M_\chi F(I+A) M_\chi$ is weak type (1,1) (respectively, $P_\Omega F(I+A) P_\Omega$ is weak type (1,1)). We also prove boundedness on $L^p$ for all $p \in (1,2]$ of the partial Riesz transforms $M_\chi \nabla (I + A)^{-1/2}M_ \chi$. The proofs are based on a criterion for a singular integral operator to be weak type (1,1).