Nehari's Theorem and Hardy's inequality for Paley--Wiener spaces

Abstract

Recently it was proven that for a convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ that has infinitely many extreme vectors, the Nehari theorem fails, that is, there exists a bounded Hankel operator $\Ha_{\phi}$ on the Paley--Wiener space $\PW(\Omega)$ that does not admit a bounded symbol. In this paper we examine whether Nehari's theorem can hold under the stronger assumption that the Hankel operator $\Ha_{\phi}$ is in the Schatten class $S^{p}(\PW(\Omega))$. We prove that this fails for $p>4$ for any convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\geq2$, of boundary with a $C^{2}$ neighborhood of nonzero curvature. Furthermore we prove that for a polytope $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, the inequality $$\int_{2P}\dfrac{|\widehat{f}(x)|}{m(P\cap (x-P))}dx\leq C(P)\|f\|_{L^{1}},$$ holds for all $f\in \PW^{1}(2P)$, and consequently any Hilbert--Schmidt Hankel operator on a Paley--Wiener space of a polytope is generated by a bounded function.