Multilinear transference of Fourier and Schur multipliers acting on noncommutative Lp-spaces

Let G be a locally compact unimodular group, and let phi be some function of n variables on G. To such a phi, one can associate a multilinear Fourier multiplier, which acts on some n-fold product of the noncommutative L-p-spaces of the group von Neumann algebra. One may also define an associated Schur multiplier, which acts on an n-fold product of Schatten classes S-p(L-2(G)). We generalize well-known transference results from the linear case to the multilinear case. In particular, we show that the so-called "multiplicatively bounded (p(1), . . . , p(n))-norm" of a multilinear Schur multiplier is bounded above by the corresponding multiplicatively bounded norm of the Fourier multiplier, with equality whenever the group is amenable. Furthermore, we prove that the bilinear Hilbert transform is not bounded as a vector-valued map L-p1 (R, S-p1) x L-p2 (R, S-p2) -> L-1(R, S-1), whenever p(1) and p(2) are such that 1/p(1) + 1/p(2) = 1. A similar result holds for certain Calderon-Zygmund-type operators. This is in contrast to the nonvector-valued Euclidean case.