On almost everywhere divergence of Bochner–Riesz means on compact Lie groups

Abstract

Let G be a connected, simply connected, compact semisimple Lie group of dimension n. It has been shown by Clerc (Ann Inst Fourier Grenoble 24(1):149–172, 1974) that, for any $$f\in L^1(G)$$ , the Bochner–Riesz mean $$S_R^\delta (f)$$ converges almost everywhere to f, provided $$\delta >(n-1)/2$$ . In this paper, we show that, at the critical index $$\delta =(n-1)/2$$ , there exists an $$f\in L^1(G)$$ such that $$\begin{aligned} \limsup _{R\rightarrow \infty } \big |S_{R}^{(n-1)/2}(f)(x)\big |=\infty ,\quad a.e. x\in G. \end{aligned}$$ This is an analogue of a well-known result of Kolmogoroff (Fund Math 4(1):324–328, 1923) for Fourier series on the circle, and a result of Stein (Ann Math 2(74):140–170, 1961) for Bochner–Riesz means on the tori $$\mathbb {T}^{n}, n\ge 2$$ . We also study localization properties of the Bochner–Riesz mean $$S_{R}^{(n-1)/2}(f)$$ for $$f\in L^1(G)$$ .