Weighted Fractional Bernstein's inequalities and their applications

Abstract

This paper studies the following weighted, fractional Bernstein inequality for spherical polynomials on $\sph$: \begin{equation}\label{4-1-TD-ab} \|(-\Delta_0)^{r/2} f\|_{p,w}\leq C_w n^{r} \|f\|_{p,w}, \ \ \forall f\in \Pi_n^d, \end{equation} where $\Pi_n^d$ denotes the space of all spherical polynomials of degree at most $n$ on $\sph$, and $(-\Delta_0)^{r/2}$ is the fractional Laplacian-Beltrami operator on $\sph$. A new class of doubling weights with conditions weaker than the $A_p$ is introduced, and used to fully characterize those doubling weights $w$ on $\sph$ for which the weighted Bernstein inequality \eqref{4-1-TD-ab} holds for some $1\leq p\leq \infty$ and all $r>\tau$. In the unweighted case, it is shown that if $0<p<\infty$ and $r>0$ is not an even integer, then \eqref{4-1-TD-ab} with $w\equiv 1$ holds if and only if $r>(d-1)(\f 1p-1)$. As applications, we show that any function $f\in L_p(\sph)$ with $0<p<1$ can be approximated by the de la Vall\'ee Poussin means of a Fourier-Laplace series, and establish a sharp Sobolev type Embedding theorem for the weighted Besov spaces with respect to general doubling weights.