The first part of this book offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of pointwise multipliers acting in pairs of spaces of differentiable functions. The second part of the book explores several applications of this theory.

Many multiplier theorems of Fourier analysis have analogs for ultraspherical expansions. But what was a single theorem in the Fourier setting becomes an entire family of theorems in this more general setting. The problem solved in this paper is that of organizing the children of the Fourier theorems, and many new theorems besides, into a coherent theory. The most critical step in this organization is identifying a family of Banach spaces which include the sequences described in the classical multiplier theorems as special cases. Once this family is found, the next step is to develop the methods of interpolation necessary to show that this family forms a scale of spaces--in the sense that if two spaces in the family act as multipliers on L[superscript]p, then all spaces "between" these two spaces act as multipliers on L[superscript]p.

Over the course of his distinguished career, Vladimir Maz'ya has made a number of groundbreaking contributions to numerous areas of mathematics, including partial differential equations, function theory, and harmonic analysis. The chapters in this volume - compiled on the occasion of his 80th birthday - are written by distinguished mathematicians and pay tribute to his many significant and lasting achievements.