Equiconvergence theorems for Fourier-Bessel expansions with applications to the harmonic analysis of radial functions in Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces

Abstract

We shall prove an equiconvergence theorem between Fourier-Bessel expansions of functions in certain weighted Lebesgue spaces and the classical cosine Fourier expansions of suitable related functions. These weighted Lebesgue spaces arise naturally in the harmonic analysis of radial functions on euclidean spaces and we shall use the equiconvergence result to deduce sharp results for the pointwise almost everywhere convergence of Fourier integrals of radial functions in the Lorentz spaces L p , q ( R n ) {L^{p,q}}({{\mathbf {R}}^n}) . Also we shall briefly apply the above approach to the study of the harmonic analysis of radial functions on noneuclidean hyperbolic spaces.