On the product theory of singular integrals

Abstract

We establish Lp-boundedness for a class of product singular integral operators on spaces M = M1 x M2 x . . . x Mn. Each factor space Mi is a smooth manifold on which the basic geometry is given by a control, or Carnot-Caratheodory, metric induced by a collection of vector fields of finite type. The standard singular integrals on Mi are non-isotropic smoothing operators of order zero. The boundedness of the product operators is then a consequence of a natural Littlewood- Paley theory on M. This in turn is a consequence of a corresponding theory on each factor space. The square function for this theory is constructed from the heat kernel for the sub-Laplacian on each factor.