Duality in Segal-Bargmann Spaces

Abstract

For $\alpha>0$, the Bargmann projection $P_\alpha$ is the orthogonal projection from $L^2(\gamma_\alpha)$ onto the holomorphic subspace $L^2_{hol}(\gamma_\alpha)$, where $\gamma_\alpha$ is the standard Gaussian probability measure on $\C^n$ with variance $(2\alpha)^{-n}$. The space $L^2_{hol}(\gamma_\alpha)$ is classically known as the Segal-Bargmann space. We show that $P_\alpha$ extends to a bounded operator on $L^p(\gamma_{\alpha p/2})$, and calculate the exact norm of this scaled $L^p$ Bargmann projection. We use this to show that the dual space of the $L^p$-Segal-Bargmann space $L^p_{hol}(\gamma_{\alpha p/2})$ is an $L^{p'}$ Segal-Bargmann space, but with the Gaussian measure scaled differently: $(L^p_{hol}(\gamma_{\alpha p/2}))^* \cong L^{p'}_{hol}(\gamma_{\alpha p'/2})$ (this was shown originally by Janson, Peetre, and Rochberg). We show that the Bargmann projection controls this dual isomorphism, and gives a dimension-independent estimate on one of the two constants of equivalence of the norms.