In this paper we establish the optimal multilinear restriction estimate for n-1 hypersurfaces with some curvature, where $n$ is the dimension of the underlying space. The result is sharp up to the endpoint and the role of curvature is made precise in terms of the shape operator.
The first result in this paper provides a very general $ε$-removal argument for the multilinear restriction estimate. The second result provides a refinement of the multilinear restriction estimate in the case when some terms have appropriate localization properties; this generalizes a prior result of the author.
We provide an alternative and self contained proof of the main result of Bennett, Carbery, Tao regarding the multilinear restriction estimate. The approach is inspired by the recent result of Guth about the Kakeya version of multilinear restriction estimate. At lower levels of multilinearity we provide a refined estimate in the context of small support for one of the terms involved.
We revisit the multilinear Kakeya, curved Kakeya, restriction, and oscillatory integral estimates that were obtained in paper of Bennett, Carbery, and the author using a heat flow monotonicity method applied to a fractional Cartesian product, together with induction on scales arguments. Many of these estimates contained losses of the form $R^\varepsilon$ (or $\log^{O(1)} R$) for some scale factor $R$. By further developing the heat flow method, and applying it directly for the first time to the multilinear curved Kakeya and restriction settings, we are able to eliminate these losses, as long a…
Bennett, Carbery and Tao considered the $k$-linear restriction estimate in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and established the near optimal $L^\frac2{k-1}$ estimate under transversality assumptions only. We have shown that the trilinear restriction estimate improves its range of exponents under some curvature assumptions. In this paper we establish almost sharp multilinear estimates for a class of hypersurfaces with curvature for $4 \leq k \leq n$. Together with previous results in the literature, this shows that curvature improves the range of exponents in the multilinear restriction estimate at all level…
We prove $d$-linear analogues of the classical restriction and Kakeya conjectures in $\R^d$. Our approach involves obtaining monotonicity formulae pertaining to a certain evolution of families of gaussians, closely related to heat flow. We conclude by giving some applications to the corresponding variable-coefficient problems and the so-called "joints" problem, as well as presenting some $n$-linear analogues for $n<d$.
The restriction problem is better understood for hypersurfaces and recent progresses have been made by bilinear and multilinear approaches and most recently polynomial partitioning method which is combined with those estimates. However, for surfaces with codimension bigger than 1, bilinear and multilinear generalization of restriction estimates are more involved and effectiveness of these multilinear estimates is not so well understood yet. Regarding the restriction problem for the surfaces with codimensions bigger than 1, the current state of the art is still at the level of $TT^*$ method whi…
Christ, Li, Tao, and Thiele have established multilinear oscillatory integral operator inequalities under severe dimensional restrictions. These restrictions are relaxed substantially in the present paper, but are by no means eliminated. The simple method used here has the advantage of yielding power type bounds, but cannot be expected to extend to the general case.
This paper establishes a necessary and sufficient condition for $L^p$-boundedness of a class of multilinear functionals which includes both the Brascamp-Lieb inequalities and generalized Radon transforms associated to algebraic incidence relations. The testing condition involves bounding the average of an inverse power of certain Jacobian-type quantities along fibers of associated projections and covers many widely-studied special cases, including convolution with measures on nondegenerate hypersurfaces or on nondegenerate curves. The heart of the proof is based on Guth's visibility lemma in o…
Using the multilinear theory of oscillatory integral operators, we establish a square function inequality with implications to moment inequalities for discrete exponential sums which frequencies lie on curved hyper-surfaces. In particular a new distributional estimate for toral eigenfunctions is established.
We apply the Bennett-Carbery-Tao multilinear restriction estimate in order to bound restriction operators and more general oscillatory integral operators. We get improved L^p estimates in the Stein restriction problem for dimension at least 5 and a small improvement in dimension 3. We prove similar estimates for Hormander-type oscillatory integral operators when the quadratic term in the phase function is positive definite, getting improvements in dimension at least 5. We also prove estimates for Hormander-type oscillatory integral operators in even dimensions. These last oscillatory estimates…
This is the second of two articles in which we prove a sharp $L^p-L^2$ Fourier restriction theorem for a large class of smooth, finite type hypersurfaces in R^3, which includes in particular all real-analytic hypersurfaces.
In this paper we establish sharp estimates (up to logarithmic losses) for the multilinear oscillatory integral operator studied by Phong, Stein, and Sturm and Carbery and Wright on any product $\prod_{j=1}^d L^{p_j}(\mathbb R)$ with each $p_j \geq 2$, expanding the known results for this operator well outside the previous range $\sum_{j=1}^d p_j^{-1} = d-1$. Our theorem assumes second-order nondegeneracy condition of Varchenko type, and as a corollary reproduces Varchenko's theorem and implies Fourier decay estimates for measures of smooth density on degenerate hypersurfaces in $\mathbb R^d$.
Conditional on Fourier restriction estimates for elliptic hypersurfaces, we prove optimal restriction estimates for polynomial hypersurfaces of revolution for which the defining polynomial has non-negative coefficients. In particular, we obtain uniform--depending only on the dimension and polynomial degree--estimates for restriction with affine surface measure, slightly beyond the bilinear range. The main step in the proof of our linear result is an (unconditional) bilinear adjoint restriction estimate for pieces at different scales.
This paper considers the problem of $L^p$-estimates for a certain multilinear functional involving integration against a kernel with the structure of a determinant. Examples of such objects are ubiquitous in the study of Fourier restriction and geometric averaging operators. It is shown that, under very general circumstances, the boundedness of such functionals is equivalent to a geometric inequality for measures which has recently appeared in work by D. Oberlin (Math Proc. Cambridge. Philos. Soc., 129, 2000) and Bak, Oberlin, and Seeger (J. Aust. Math. Soc., 85, 2008).
We will extend the Fourier restriction inequality for quadratic hypersurfaces obtained by Strichartz. We will consider the case where the hypersurface is a graph of a certain real polynomial which is a sum of one-dimensional monomials. It is essential to examine the decay of a one-dimensional oscillatory
We show, using a Knapp-type homogeneity argument, that the $(L^p, L^2)$ restriction theorem implies a growth condition on the hypersurface in question. We further use this result to show that the optimal $(L^p, L^2)$ restriction theorem implies the sharp isotropic decay rate for the Fourier transform of the Lebesgue measure carried by compact convex finite hypersurfaces.
It is known that under some transversality and curvature assumptions on the hypersurfaces involved, the bilinear restriction estimate holds true with better exponents than what would trivially follow from the corresponding linear estimates. This subject was extensively studied for conic and parabolic surfaces with sharp results proved by Wolff and Tao, and with later generalizations by Lee. In this paper we provide a unified theory for general hypersurfaces and clarify the role of curvature in this problem, by making statements in terms of the shape operators of the hypersurfaces involved.
In this paper we consider adjoint restriction estimates for space curves with respect to general measures and obtain optimal estimates when the curves satisfy a finite type condition. The argument here is new in that it doesn't rely on the \emph{offspring curve} method, which has been extensively used in the previous works. Our work was inspired by the recent argument due to Bourgain and Guth which was used to deduce linear restriction estimates from multilinear estimates for hypersurfaces.
We prove moment inequalities for exponential sums with respect to singular measures, whose Fourier decay matches those of curved hypersurfaces. Our emphasis will be on proving estimates that are sharp with respect to the scale parameter $N$, apart from $N^ε$ losses. In a few instances, we manage to remove these losses.
We prove essentially sharp bounds for the $L^p$ restriction of weighted Gauss sums to monomial curves. Getting the $L^2$ upper bound combines the $TT^*$ method for matrices with the first and second derivative test for exponential sums. The matching lower bound follows via constructive interference on short blocks of integers, near the critical point of the phase function. This method is used to make the broader point that restriction to hypersurfaces is really sensitive to curvature. Our results here complement earlier results by the author and Langowski.
This is the first of two articles in which we prove a sharp $L^p-L^2$ Fourier restriction theorem for a large class of smooth, finite type hypersurfaces in $\Bbb R^3$, which includes in particular all real-analytic hypersurfaces. The present file is a modified and extended version of an earlier file of the same title. Some changes and corrections had become necessary, in order to make sure that Part II is really compatible with Part I, and it is recommended to replace the earlier version of Part I by the new one.
The problem of $L^p(R^3)\to L^2(S)$ Fourier restriction estimates for smooth hypersurfaces S of finite type in R^3 is by now very well understood for a large class of hypersurfaces, including all analytic ones. In this article, we take up the study of more general $L^p(R^3)\to L^q(S)$ Fourier restriction estimates, by studying a prototypical class of two-dimensional surfaces with strongly varying curvature conditions. Our approach is based on an adaptation of the so-called bilinear method. We discuss several new features arising in the study of this problem.
Bennett, Carbery and Tao established nearly optimal $L^1$ trilinear restriction estimates in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ under transversality assumptions only. In this paper we show that the curvature improves the range of exponents, by establishing $L^p$ estimates, for any $p > \frac{2(n+4)}{3(n+2)}$ in the case of double-conic surfaces. The exponent $\frac{2(n+4)}{3(n+2)}$ is shown to be the universal threshold for the trilinear estimate.
We prove discrete restriction estimates for a broad class of hypersurfaces and varieties of intermediate codimension. For our result about hypersurfaces, we use Bourgain's arithmetic version of the Tomas--Stein method and Magyar's decomposition of Birch's hypersurfaces. For our result about varieties of higher codimension, we use the even moment method and works of Birch and Schmidt.
We prove an optimal restriction theorem for an arbitrary homogeneous polynomial hypersurface (of degree at least 2) in R^3, with affine curvature introduced as mitigating factor.
In this article, we study the problem of obtaining Lebesgue space inequalities for the Fourier restriction operator associated to rectangular pieces of the paraboloid and perturbations thereof. We state a conjecture for the dependence of the operator norms in these inequalities on the sidelengths of the rectangles, prove that this conjecture follows from (a slight reformulation of the) restriction conjecture for elliptic hypersurfaces, and prove that, if valid, the conjecture is essentially sharp. Such questions arise naturally in the study of restriction inequalities for degenerate hypersurfa…
In this paper we find the sharp forms and characterize the complex-valued extremizers of the adjoint Fourier restriction inequalities on the sphere $$\big\|\widehat{f σ}\big\|_{L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{d})} \lesssim \|f\|_{L^{q}(\mathbb{S}^{d-1},σ)}$$ in the cases $(d,p,q) = (d,2k, q)$ with $d,k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $q\in \mathbb{R}^+ \cup \{\infty\}$ satisfying: (a) $k = 2$, $q \geq 2$ and $3 \leq d\leq 7$; (b) $k = 2$, $q \geq 4$ and $d \geq 8$; (c) $k \geq 3$, $q \geq 2k$ and $d \geq 2$. We also prove a sharp multilinear weighted restriction inequality, with weight related to the $k$-fold convoluti…
In this paper, we present a different proof on the discrete Fourier restriction. The proof recovers Bourgain's level set result on Strichartz estimates associated with Schrödinger equations on torus. Some sharp estimates on $L^{\frac{2(d+2)}{d}}$ norm of certain exponential sums in higher dimensional cases are established. As an application, we show that some discrete multilinear maximal functions are bounded on $L^2(\mathbb Z)$.
This result sharpens the bilinear to linear deduction of Lee and Vargas for extension estimates on the hyperbolic paraboloid in $\mathbb R^3$ to the sharp line, leading to the first scale-invariant restriction estimates, beyond the Stein--Tomas range, for a hypersurface on which the principal curvatures have different signs.
Consider the Fourier restriction operator associated to a curve in $R^d$, $d\ge 3$. We prove for various classes of curves the endpoint restricted strong type estimate with respect to affine arclength measure on the curve. An essential ingredient is an interpolation result for multilinear operators with symmetries acting on sequences of vector-valued functions.
In this article we revisit some classical conjectures in harmonic analysis in the setting of mixed norm spaces $L^p_{rad} L^2_{ang} (\mathbb{R}^n)$. We produce sharp bounds for the restriction of the Fourier transform to compact hypersurfaces of revolution in the mixed norm setting and study an extension of the disc multiplier. We also present some results for the discrete restriction conjecture and state an intriguing open problem.
In connection with the restriction problem in $\mathbb R^n$ for hypersurfaces including the sphere and paraboloid, the bilinear (adjoint) restriction estimates have been extensively studied. However, not much is known about such estimates for surfaces with codimension (and dimension) larger than one. In this paper we show sharp bilinear $L^2 \times L^2 \to L^q$ restriction estimates for general surfaces of higher codimension. In some special cases, we can apply these results to obtain the corresponding linear estimates.
We give an abstract argument that an a priori Fourier restriction estimate for a certain choice of exponents automatically implies maximal and variational Fourier restriction estimates. These, in turn, provide pointwise and quantitative interpretations of restriction of the Fourier transform to the hypersurface in question.
Uniqueness in the Calderón problem in dimension bigger than two was usually studied under the assumption that conductivity has bounded gradient. For conductivities with unbounded gradients uniqueness results have not been known until recent years. The latest result due to Haberman basically relies on the optimal $L^2$ restriction estimate for hypersurface which is known as the Tomas-Stein restriction theorem. In the course of developments of the Fourier restriction problem bilinear and multilinear generalizations of the (adjoint) restriction estimates under suitable transversality condition be…
For $ 1\le k <n$, we prove that for functions $F,G$ on $ {\Bbb R}^{n}$, any $k$-dimensional affine subspace $H \subset {\Bbb R}^{n}$, and $p,q,r \ge 2$ with $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}+\frac{1}{r}=1$, one has the estimate $$ {||(F*G)|_H||}_{L^{r}(H)} \leq {||F||}_{Λ^H_{2, p}({\Bbb R}^{n})} \cdot {||G||}_{Λ^H_{2, q}({\Bbb R}^{n})},$$ where the mixed norms on the right are defined by $$ {||F||}_{Λ^H_{2,p}({\Bbb R}^{n})}={(\int_{H^*} {(\int {|\hat{F}|}^2 dH_ξ^{\perp})}^{\frac{p}{2}} dξ)}^{\frac{1}{p}},$$ with $dH_ξ^{\perp}$ the $(n-k)$-dimensional Lebesgue measure on the affine subspace $H_ξ^{\perp}…
In this note we consider the adjoint restriction estimate for hypersurface under additional regularity assumption. We obtain the optimal $H^s$-$L^q$ estimate and its mixed norm generalization. As applications we prove some weighted Strichartz estimates for the propagator $e^{it(-Δ)^{α/2}}φ$, $α>0$.
Let $S$ be a hypersurface in $\Bbb R^3$ which is the graph of a smooth, finite type function $ϕ,$ and let $μ=ρ\, d\si$ be a surface carried measure on $S,$ where $d\si$ denotes the surface element on $S$ and $ρ$ a smooth density with suffiently small support. We derive uniform estimates for the Fourier transform $\hat μ$ of $μ,$ which are sharp except for the case where the principal face of the Newton polyhedron of $ϕ,$ when expressed in adapted coordinates, is unbounded. As an application, we prove a sharp $L^p$-$L^2$ Fourier restriction theorem for $S$ in the case where the original coordin…
In their work [IM16] I.A. Ikromov and D. Müller proved the full range $L^p-L^2$ Fourier restriction estimates for a very general class of hypersurfaces in $\R^3$ which includes the class of real analytic hypersurfaces. In this article we partly extend their results to the mixed norm case where the coordinates are split in two directions, one tangential and the other normal to the surface at a fixed given point. In particular, we resolve completely the adapted case and partly the non-adapted case. In the non-adapted case the case when the linear height $h_\text{lin}(ϕ)$ is below two is settled …
In 1901, Severi proved that if $Z$ is an irreducible hypersurface in $\mathbb{P}^4(\mathbb{C})$ that contains a three dimensional set of lines, then $Z$ is either a quadratic hypersurface or a scroll of planes. We prove a discretized version of this result for hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$. As an application, we prove that at most $δ^{-2-\varepsilon}$ direction-separated $δ$-tubes can be contained in the $δ$-neighborhood of a low-degree hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^4$. This result leads to improved bounds on the restriction and Kakeya problems in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Combined with previous work of…
We consider bilinear restriction estimates for wave-Schrödinger interactions and provided a sharp condition to ensure that the product belongs to $L^q_t L^r_x$ in the full bilinear range $\frac{2}{q} + \frac{d+1}{r} < d+1$, $1 \leqslant q, r \leqslant 2$. Moreover, we give a counter-example which shows that the bilinear restriction estimate can fail, even in the transverse setting. This failure is closely related to the lack of curvature of the cone. Finally we mention extensions of these estimates to adapted function spaces. In particular we give a general transference type principle for $U^2…