Fourier multipliers of classical modulation spaces

Based on the observation that translation invariant operators on modulation spaces are convolution operators we use techniques concerning pointwise multipliers for generalized Wiener amalgam spaces in order to give a complete characterization of the Fourier multipliers of modulation spaces. We deduce various applications, among them certain convolution relations between modulation spaces, as well as a short proof for a generalization of the main result of a recent paper by Bènyi et al., see [À. Bènyi, L. Grafakos, K. Gröchenig, K.A. Okoudjou, A class of Fourier multipliers for modulation spaces, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 19 (1) (2005) 131–139]. Finally, we show that any function with ([d/2]+1)-times bounded derivatives is a Fourier multiplier for all modulation spaces Mp,q(Rd) with p∈(1,∞) and q∈[1,∞].