The weak-type $(1,1)$ estimates for wave equation on $ax+b$ groups

Abstract

Let $G$ be the group $\mathbb{R}_+\ltimes \mathbb{R}^n$ endowed with Riemannian symmetric space metric $d$ and the right Haar measure $\mathrm{d} \rho$ which is of $ax+b$ type, and $L$ be the positive definite distinguished left-invariant Laplacian on $G$. Let $u=u(t,\cdot)$ be the solution to $u_{tt}+Lu=0$ with initial conditions $u|_{t=0}=f$ and $u_t|_{t=0}=g$. In this article we show that for a fixed $t \in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0\}$, \begin{align*} \|u(t,\cdot)\|_{L^{1,\infty}(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)}\leq C\ (1+|t|)\big(\|(\operatorname{Id}+L)^{\alpha_0/2}f\|_{L^1(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)} +\|(\operatorname{Id}+L)^{\alpha_1/2}g\|_{L^1(G,\mathrm{d}\rho)}\big) \end{align*} if and only if $\alpha_0\geq {n/2}$ and $\alpha_1\geq n/2-1$. Moreover, the polynomial-in-time growth $1+|t|$ in the above estimate is best possible.