Conical square function estimates in UMD Banach spaces and applications to H ^∞-functional calculi

We study conical square function estimates for Banach-valued functions and introduce a vector-valued analogue of the Coifman-Meyer-Stein tent spaces. Following recent work of Auscher-M^cIntosh-Russ, the tent spaces in turn are used to construct a scale of vector-valued Hardy spaces associated with a given bisectorial operator A with certain off-diagonal bounds such that A always has a bounded H ^∞-functional calculus on these spaces. This provides a new way of proving functional calculus of A on the Bochner spaces L ^p ( ⁿ ; X) by checking appropriate conical square function estimates and also a conical analogue ofBourgain's extension of the Littlewood-Paley theory to the UMD-valued context. Even when X =, our approach gives refined p-dependent versions of known results.