Riesz transform on locally symmetric spaces and Riemannian manifolds with a spectral gap

In this paper we study the Riesz transform on complete and connected Riemannian manifolds M with a certain spectral gap in the L2 spectrum of the Laplacian. We show that on such manifolds the Riesz transform is Lp bounded for all p∈(1,∞). This generalizes a result by Mandouvalos and Marias and extends a result by Auscher, Coulhon, Duong, and Hofmann to the case where zero is an isolated point of the L2 spectrum of the Laplacian.