Lacunary elliptic maximal operator on the Heisenberg group

Abstract

In this paper, we prove \( L^p \) boundedness results for lacunary elliptic maximal operators on the Heisenberg group. Furthermore, we extend these \( L^p \) estimates from skew-symmetric matrices, which naturally arise in Heisenberg group operations, to arbitrary matrices \( A \), investigating how the curvature induced by \( A \) governs the \( L^p \) boundedness of lacunary circular and elliptic maximal operators. Specifically, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on \( A \) that determine whether these operators are bounded or unbounded on \( L^p \).