A sharp regularity estimate for the Schrödinger propagator on the sphere
Let $Δ_{\mathbb S^n}$ denote the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the $n$-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb S^n$. In this paper we show that $$ \| e^{it Δ_{\mathbb S^n}}f \|_{L^4([0, 2π) \times \mathbb S^n)} \leq C \| f\|_{W^{α, 4} (\mathbb S^n)} $$ holds provided that $n\geq 2$, $α> {(n-2)/4}.$ The range of $α$ is sharp up to the endpoint. As a consequence, we obtain space-time estimates for the Schrödinger propagator $e^{it Δ_{\mathbb S^n}}$ on the $L^p$ spaces for $2\leq p\leq \infty.$ We also prove that for zonal functions on ${\mathbb S}^n$, the Schrödinger maximal operator $\sup_{0\leq t<2π} |e^{itΔ_{\mathbb S^n}} f|$ is bounded from $W^{α, 2}(\mathbb S^n) $ to $L^{\frac{6n}{3n-2}}(\mathbb S^n)$ whenever $α>{1/3}$.