Boundedness of iterated spherical average on modulation spaces

Abstract

The spherical average $A_{1}(f)$ and its iteration $(A_{1})^{N}$ are important operators in harmonic analysis and probability theory. Also $\Delta (A_{1})^{N}$ is used to study the $K$ functional in approximation theory, where $\Delta $ is the Laplace operator. In this paper, we obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions to ensure the boundedness of $\Delta (A_{1})^{N}$ from the modulation space $M_{p_{1},q_{1}}^{s_{1}}$ to the modulation space $M_{p_{2},q_{2}}^{s_{2}}$ for $1\leq p_{1},p_{2},q_{1},q_{2}\leq \infty $ and $s_{1},s_{2}\in \mathbb{R}$.