Littlewood–Paley theory for matrix-weighted function spaces

Abstract

We define the vector-valued, matrix-weighted function spaces $\dot{F}^{\alpha q}_p(W)$ (homogeneous) and $F^{\alpha q}_p(W)$ (inhomogeneous) on ${\mathbb {R}}^n$, for $\alpha \in {\mathbb {R}}$, $0<p<\infty$, $0<q \le \infty$, with the matrix weight W belonging to the $A_p$ class. For $1<p<\infty$, we show that $L^p(W) = \dot{F}^{0 2}_p(W)$, and, for $k \in {\mathbb {N}}$, that $F^{k 2}_p(W)$ coincides with the matrix-weighted Sobolev space $L^p_k(W)$, thereby obtaining Littlewood-Paley characterizations of $L^p(W)$ and $L^p_k (W)$. We show that a vector-valued function belongs to $\dot{F}^{\alpha q}_p(W)$ if and only if its wavelet or $\varphi$-transform coefficients belong to an associated sequence space $\dot{f}^{\alpha q}_p(W)$. We also characterize these spaces in terms of reducing operators associated to W.