{ "id": "1303.3159", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-03-13T13:46:10.000Z", "updated": "2013-03-13T13:46:10.000Z", "title": "Square functions and spectral multipliers for Bessel operators in UMD spaces", "authors": [ "Jorge J. Betancor", "Alejandro J. Castro", "Lourdes Rodriguez-Mesa" ], "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "In this paper we consider square functions (also called Littlewood-Paley g-functions) associated to Hankel convolutions acting on functions in the Bochner-Lebesgue space $L^p((0,\\infty),B)$, where $B$ is a UMD Banach space. As special cases we study square functions defined by fractional derivatives of the Poisson semigroup for the Bessel operator $\\Delta_\\lambda=-x^{-\\lambda}\\frac{d}{dx}x^{2\\lambda}\\frac{d}{dx}x^{-\\lambda}$, $\\lambda >0$. We characterize the UMD property for a Banach space $B$ by using $L^p((0,\\infty),B)$-boundedness properties of g-functions defined by Bessel-Poisson semigroups. As a by product we prove that the fact that the imaginary power $\\Delta_\\lambda ^{iw}$, $w\\in \\mathbb{R}\\setminus\\{0\\}$, of the Bessel operator $\\Delta_\\lambda$ is bounded in $L^p ((0,\\infty),B)$, $1