Let , let G and H be locally compact groups and let ω be a continuous homomorphism of G into H. We prove, if G is amenable, the existence of a linear contraction of the Banach algebra CVp(G) of the p-convolution operators on G into CVp(H) which extends the usual definition of the image of a bounded measure by ω. We also discuss the uniqueness of this linear contraction onto important subalgebras of CVp(G). Even if G and H are abelian, we obtain new results. Let Gd denote the group G provided with a discrete topology. As a corollary, we obtain, for every discrete measure, , for Gd amenable. For arbitrary G, we also obtain . These inequalities were already known for p=2 . The proofs presented in this paper avoid the use of the Hilbertian techniques which are not applicable to . Finally, for Gd amenable, we construct a natural map of CVp (G) into CVp (Gd) .

We study when the spaces of Lorentz multipliers from ${{L}^{p,t\,}}\to \,{{L}^{p,s}}$ are distinct. Our main interest is the case when $s\,<\,t$, the Lorentz-improving multipliers. We prove, for example, that the space of multipliers which map ${{L}^{p,t\,}}\to \,{{L}^{p,s}}$ is different from those mapping ${{L}^{r,v}}\,\to \,{{L}^{r,u}}$ if either $r\,=\,p$ or ${p}'$ and $1/s\,-\,1/t\,\ne \,1/u\,-\,1/v$, or $r\,\ne \,p$ or ${p}'$. These results are obtained by making careful estimates of the Lorentz multiplier norms of certain linear combinations of Fejer or Dirichlet kernels. For the case when the first indices are different the linear combination we analyze is in the spirit of a Rudin-Shapiro polynomial.