1. Introduction
Let
w be a weight on
. For
we denote by
the space of all Lebesgue measurable functions on
with finite quasi-norms
For the unweighted case, i.e.,
, we write
and
instead of
and
for simplicity.
Let
be the Schwartz space of all complex-valued rapidly decreasing functions in
, and let
be the complex-valued tempered distributions. For
and
the weighted Paley–Wiener space
consisting of all entire functions of spherical exponential type
whose restrictions to
are in
is defined by
where
is the Fourier transform of the distribution
, and
(with Euclidean distance
on
) is the (closed) ball with center
x and radius
r. We simply write
if
.
Let
be a discrete subset of
. We say that
is an
-sampling set for
, if there exists a constant
such that for all
,
We say that
is an
-interpolating set for
, if there exists a constant
such that for each sequence
satisfying
there is a function
, for which
and
Intuitively, a sampling set should be dense in order to recover the
-norm of functions of the space
, and an interpolating set should be sparse. The
-sampling condition is also known as Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund inequalities for the trigonometric polynomials, for spaces of algebraic polynomials with respect to some measure, and for spaces of spherical harmonics on the sphere. The existence of a
-sampling set,
means that the
-norm of
is comparable to the discrete version given by the
-norm of its restriction to
. It follows from Theorem 2 (see
Section 2) that such a
-sampling set for
exists if the set is dense enough. A good reference for material on sampling and interpolation in spaces of analytic functions is [
1].
The sampling and interpolation in the Paley–Wiener setting provide a mathematical model of stable recovery and data transmission in signal theory regardless of the computation method. In 1967, Landau’s classical results ([
2]) showed the necessary conditions for the sampling and interpolation of certain entire functions of Paley–Wiener space on Euclidean space
in terms of uniform densities for the unweighted case
with
, which established Beurling’s conjecture regarding the density of sets of balayage for greater dimensions, also known as the precise mathematical formulation of the Nyquist density ([
3]). While a great deal of work has extended the theory of Beurling–Landau on the discretization of functions in the Paley–Wiener space on
to functions in many contexts (see [
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13] and references therein).
However, these foundational results of Landau are limited to the unweighted setting. Many real-world applications require the analysis of non-uniformly distributed data or signals with spatially varying energy. This naturally leads to weighted function spaces, where the weight quantifies the local importance or measurement density. For instance, in sensor networks with irregular node distributions, weights model spatial sampling density. In signal processing, weights arise in non-uniform sampling reconstruction and spectral estimation with prior information. In approximation theory, doubling weights (defined later) cover critical cases like polynomial weights, which are essential for handling singularities or boundary effects.
Despite this practical relevance, there are few results concerning the sampling and interpolation conditions on weighted spaces, especially for the weighted Paley–Wiener spaces on
, for general
and doubling weights. Recent work by Dai and Wang ([
14]) addressed the interpolation for weighted Paley–Wiener spaces associated with the Dunkl transform in one dimension, and Wang ([
15]) provided the necessary density conditions on the sphere. Motivated by these results and applications, in this paper, we mainly discuss the sampling and interpolation of certain entire functions with doubling weights on
. The problem addressed in this paper is the lack of necessary density conditions for sampling and interpolation sets in the general weighted Paley–Wiener space
on
for all
and doubling weights
w (for the definition of
and
w, see
Section 2). We aim to establish such necessary conditions, generalizing Landau’s fundamental results to this broader setting. Generalizing Landau’s density theory to weighted settings is fundamental for two reasons: (i) It establishes whether density constraints are intrinsic to the spectral domain
or altered by the weight
w. Our results show universality—density thresholds depend only on
, independent of
w, which means that the weighted and unweighted cases share the same density properties. (ii) Necessary density conditions guide optimal sensor placement in weighted sensing frameworks and certify minimal sampling rates for reconstruction guarantees in
-norms.
The outline of this paper is as follows. In the next section, we recall some preliminary knowledge and summarize some known facts about the special maximal function. The Plancherel–Pólya-type inequality with doubling weight and its corollary are also introduced for the separation of the sampling set. We give our main result (Theorem 3) and its proof in
Section 3 where, by enlarging or slightly diminishing the measurable set
, we obtain an
-sampling or
-interpolating sets starting from any other
-sampling or
-interpolating sets for
. Then, the proof of Theorem 3 can be finished by the lemmas in
Section 3 and Landau’s results. Finally, a conclusion in
Section 4 provides a summary of the key findings, highlights the contributions of the work, and suggests potential directions for future research.
Throughout the paper, assume that C denotes a constant which may be different in different occurrences even in the same line, and means that there exists a constant such that , where C is called the constant of equivalence.
3. Main Results
Following Landau’s definition, let
be a uniformly separated subset, we define the upper and lower Beurling uniform density, respectively, as
and
where
is the cube centered at
x of sidelength
.
In the unweighted case and
, Landau in [
2] found the necessary conditions for sampling and interpolation for functions in
in terms of the uniform upper and lower density of
. In this paper, we generalize the results of Landau to the weighted case and give some necessary density conditions for the
-sampling and interpolating sequences for all
. The weighted case is crucial for many practical applications where measurements or reconstructions are inherently non-uniform. Sampling and interpolation with weights allow for prioritizing certain regions of space, reflecting varying importance, measurement reliability, or underlying density. Establishing necessary density conditions for sampling and interpolation in the weighted setting is essential for extending the applicability of the Paley–Wiener framework to these and other scenarios involving non-uniform data or reconstruction priorities. Weighted sampling and interpolation formalize this focus, and the associated density theorems provide theoretical guarantees. Our main result can be formulated as follows.
Theorem 3. Let , w be a doubling weight, and Λ be a discrete subset of .
(i) If Λ
is an -sampling set for , there exists a uniformly separated sampling subsequence such that (ii) If Λ
is an -interpolating set for ,
then Λ
is uniformly separated and Our results for the densities of the sampling and interpolation of the weighted Paley–Wiener space show a sort of universality with the unweighted case, and hold for all
and for doubling weights
w, significantly extending Landau’s classical results which were confined to
and
. The proof of Theorem 3 is heavily dependent on Landau’s results ([
2]). However, we need to transform the results from the weighted case to the unweighted case. A special maximal function is necessary, as the proofs rely on establishing connections between the weighted norm and a specially constructed maximal function (Theorem 1), and leveraging the properties of doubling weights, which plays an important role in several key related lemmas. The techniques for the maximal function have been used in [
21,
22] for the problems of approximation theory and harmonic analysis on spheres and balls.
3.1. Perturbative Results About Interpolating and Sampling Sets
The proof of Theorem 3 follows directly from the classical results of Landau in [
2], Corollary 1, and the three following lemmas.
Lemma 2. Let Λ be an -interpolating set for . Then, Λ is uniformly ε-separated for some .
Proof. We suppose that
for some positive constant
. Since
is an
-interpolating set for
, by definition, we obtain that for each
, there exists a function
such that
with
It suffices to show that there exists a constant
such that
for all
satisfying
. By (
5), (
6), and (
13), we obtain that
It follows from (
8), (
9) and (
15) that for any
,
proving (
14). The proof of Lemma 2 is complete. □
Let , w and be two doubling weights and let . We shall show that by slightly enlarging or diminishing the measurable set we can get the -sampling or -interpolating sets starting from any other -sampling or -interpolating sets for .
For , let and .
Lemma 3. Let , w and be two doubling weights, and let Λ be a -interpolating set for . Then for , Λ is a -interpolating set for .
Proof. Since
is an
-interpolating set for
, by definition we get that for each
, there exist a function
such that
with
By Lemma 1, we can take entire functions
g in one variable of exponential type not exceeding
, such that
and
where
l is a sufficient large positive integer. Given a sequence
satisfying
we can construct the entire function
which satisfies
and
. To show that
is
-interpolating for
, it suffices to prove that for
By Lemma 2, we obtain that
is uniformly separated. This means that
Hence, for
, by Hölder’s inequality and (
2), we have
where
is the conjugate exponent of
q.
Integrating with respect to
in both hands and noticing that
we obtain that
where, for the last inequality, we use the estimate
Next, we consider the case
. Similarly, we have
and then
The proof of Lemma 3 is complete. □
Lemma 4. Let , w and be two doubling weights, and let Λ be an uniformly separated -sampling set for . Then, for , with , Λ is an -sampling set for .
Proof. Since
is uniformly separated, for any
, by the definition and property of
, and Theorem 1, we obtain that
It suffices to prove that, for any
,
First, we consider the case
, by (
8), we have for any
,
where
is the conjugate exponent of
p.
Hence, it follows from (
2) that
By Lemma 1, we know there exist the entire functions
,
, and
of exponential type not exceeding
such that, for any
,
and
Then, by (
17), (
18), and the fact that
is an
-sampling set for
, we have
where
Again, by (
17) and (
18), we obtain that
If
, then, by Hölder inequality, we obtain
Integrating with respect to
in both hands, we obtain (
16).
Similarly, if
, then we have
Integrating with respect to
in both hands, we obtain (
16).
Next, we show that, if
, then
is an
-sampling set for
. In fact, similarly to (
17) and (
18), we know there exist the entire functions
and
of exponential type not exceeding
such that, for any
,
Then, for any
, we have
and
Integrating with respect to
, we obtain that
Thus, we obtain
The proof of Lemma 4 is complete. □
3.2. Proof of Main Result
Proof. of Theorem 3 (i) Since
is an
-sampling set for
, it follows from Corollary 1 that there exists a uniformly separated subset
which is also an
-sampling set for
. By Lemma 4, for arbitrary small
,
is an
-sampling set for
with
Then, by Landau’s classical result ([
2], Theorem 3)
(ii) Since
is an
-interpolating set for
, by Lemma 2,
is uniformly separated. It follows from Lemma 3 that for arbitrary small
,
is an
-sampling set for
with
Then, by Landau’s classical result ([
2], Theorem 4)
□
4. Conclusions
In this paper, we established that necessary density conditions for the sampling and interpolation of entire functions in weighted Paley–Wiener spaces with doubling weights. Our main results generalize Landau’s classical necessary density conditions for the unweighted Paley–Wiener spaces to the weighted setting. The key contributions of this work can be summarized as follows:
(i) We proved that, for any -sampling set of , there exists a uniformly separated subsequence satisfying This extends Landau’s necessary sampling density condition to doubling weights for all .
(ii) For -interpolating sets, we showed that must be uniformly separated and satisfy generalizing Landau’s interpolation density condition to weighted spaces.
(iii) Our results demonstrate a universality property: the necessary density conditions for sampling and interpolation in weighted Paley–Wiener spaces coincide with those in the unweighted case. This indicates that doubling weights preserve the fundamental density characteristics of sampling and interpolation sets.
These findings open several directions for future research:
(i) Extension to more general weight classes, such as non-doubling weights with polynomial growth, where the current techniques may require significant modifications.
(ii) Study of complete interpolating sequences (-sampling and interpolating sets) in multidimensional weighted spaces, which remains largely unexplored beyond the one-dimensional case.