Dimension-Free Square Function Estimates for Dunkl Operators

Dunkl operators may be regarded as differential-difference operators parameterized by finite reflection groups and multiplicity functions. In this paper, the Littlewood--Paley square function for Dunkl heat flows in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is introduced by employing the full "gradient" induced by the corresponding carr\'{e} du champ operator and then the $L^p$ boundedness is studied for all $p\in(1,\infty)$. For $p\in(1,2]$, we successfully adapt Stein's heat flows approach to overcome the difficulty caused by the difference part of the Dunkl operator and establish the $L^p$ boundedness, while for $p\in[2,\infty)$, we restrict to a particular case when the corresponding Weyl group is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_2^d$ and apply a probabilistic method to prove the $L^p$ boundedness. In the latter case, the curvature-dimension inequality for Dunkl operators in the sense of Bakry--Emery, which may be of independent interest, plays a crucial role. The results are dimension-free.