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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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 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.
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…
We investigate exponential sums over those numbers $\leq x$ all of whose prime factors are $\leq y$. We prove fairly good minor arc estimates, valid whenever $\log^{3}x \leq y \leq x^{1/3}$. Then we prove sharp upper bounds for the $p$-th moment of (possibly weighted) sums, for any real $p > 2$ and $\log^{C(p)}x \leq y \leq x$. Our proof develops an argument of Bourgain, showing this can succeed without strong major arc information, and roughly speaking it would give sharp moment bounds and restriction estimates for any set sufficiently factorable relative to its density. By combining our boun…
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.
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.
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 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 $e^{it(-Δ)^{α/2}}φ$, $α>0$.
We prove Fourier restriction estimates by means of the polynomial partitioning method for compact subsets of any sufficiently smooth hyperbolic hypersurface in threedimensional euclidean space. Our approach exploits in a crucial way the underlying hyperbolic geometry, which leads to a novel notion of strong transversality and corresponding "exceptional" sets. For the division of these exceptional sets we make crucial and perhaps surprising use of a lemma on level sets for sufficiently smooth one-variate functions from a previous article of ours.
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.
A Fuchsian system of rank 8 in 3 variables with 4 parameters is presented. The singular locus consists of six planes and a cubic surface. The restriction of the system onto the intersection of two singular planes is an ordinary differential equation of order four with three singular points. A middle convolution of this equation turns out to be the tensor product of two Gauss hypergeometric equation, and another middle convolution sends this equation to the Dotsenko-Fateev equation. Local solutions to these ordinary differential equations are found. Their coefficients are sums of products of th…
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…
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…