$$\alpha $$-Modulation Spaces for Step Two Stratified Lie Groups

We define and investigate $$\alpha $$ α -modulation spaces $$M_{p,q}^{s,\alpha }(G)$$ M p , q s , α ( G ) associated to a step two stratified Lie group G with rational structure constants. This is an extension of the Euclidean $$\alpha $$ α -modulation spaces $$M_{p,q}^{s,\alpha }({\mathbb {R}}^n)$$ M p , q s , α ( R n ) that act as intermediate spaces between the modulation spaces ($$\alpha = 0$$ α = 0 ) in time-frequency analysis and the Besov spaces ($$\alpha = 1$$ α = 1 ) in harmonic analysis. We will illustrate that the group structure and dilation structure on G affect the boundary cases $$\alpha = 0,1$$ α = 0 , 1 where the spaces $$M_{p,q}^{s}(G)$$ M p , q s ( G ) and $${\mathcal {B}}_{p,q}^{s}(G)$$ B p , q s ( G ) have non-standard translation and dilation symmetries. Moreover, we show that the spaces $$M_{p,q}^{s,\alpha }(G)$$ M p , q s , α ( G ) are non-trivial and generally distinct from their Euclidean counterparts. Finally, we examine how the metric geometry of the coverings $${\mathcal {Q}}(G)$$ Q ( G ) underlying the $$\alpha = 0$$ α = 0 case $$M_{p,q}^{s}(G)$$ M p , q s ( G ) allows for the existence of geometric embeddings $$\begin{aligned} F:M_{p,q}^{s}({\mathbb {R}}^k) \longrightarrow {} M_{p,q}^{s}(G), \end{aligned}$$ F : M p , q s ( R k ) ⟶ M p , q s ( G ) , as long as k (that only depends on G) is small enough. Our approach naturally gives rise to several open problems that is further elaborated at the end of the paper.

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