Kernel theorems in coorbit theory

Abstract

We prove general kernel theorems for operators acting between coorbit spaces. These are Banach spaces associated to an integrable representation of a locally compact group and contain most of the usual function spaces (Besov spaces, modulation spaces, etc.). A kernel theorem describes the form of every bounded operator between a coorbit space of test functions and distributions by means of a kernel in a coorbit space associated to the tensor product representation. As special cases we recover Feichtinger’s kernel theorem for modulation spaces and the recent generalizations by Cordero and Nicola. We also obtain a kernel theorem for operators between the Besov spaces B ˙ 1 , 1 0 \dot {B}^0_{1,1} and B ˙ ∞ , ∞ 0 \dot {B}^{0}_{\infty , \infty } .