On a stopping process for oscillatory integrals
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On a stopping process for oscillatory integrals
zbMATH Open document ID: 0803.42003
DOI: 10.1007/BF02921595
author: D. H. Phong
author: Elias M. Stein
published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis
publication date: 1994-07-10T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors obtain new \(L^ 2\) estimates about oscillatory integral operators of the form \[ T_ \lambda f(x)= \int^ \infty_{-\infty} e^{i\lambda S(x,y)}\chi(x,y) f(y) dy, \] where \(f\in L^ 2(\mathbb{R})\) and \(\chi\in C^ \infty_ 0\). One would like to determine sharp bounds for the operator norm \(\| T_ \lambda\|\) as \(\lambda\to\infty\). Results on \(T_ \lambda\) can be applied to prove smoothing estimates for generalized Radon transforms of the form \[ Rg(x_ 1, x_ 2)= \int f(y_ 1, x_ 2- S(x_ 1, y_ 1)) \chi(x_ 1, y_ 1) dy_ 1 \] and related operators in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\). It is assumed that the phase functions satisfy the two-sided finite type condition \(\partial_ x \partial^{n-1}_ y S(x,y)\neq 0\), \(\partial_ y \partial^{k-1}_ x S(x,y)\neq 0\), where \(k\leq n\). It was previously known that \(\| T_ \lambda\|\leq C_ \varepsilon(\lambda^{- a(k,n)+\varepsilon})\), where \(a(k,n)= (k+ n-4)[2(kn- n- k)]^{-1}\) (in particular \(a(n,n)= 1/n\)) and \(\varepsilon> 0\). Here \(C_ \varepsilon\) blows up rather badly as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) [see the reviewers article in Duke Math. J. 71, No. 3, 685-745 (1993)]. The main result in the present paper states that for \(k= n\) one has the estimate \[ \| T_ \lambda\|\leq C\lambda^{-1/n}[\log(2+ |\lambda|)]^{1/n}. \] This is a significant improvement and the proof relies on a very elegant stopping time argument. The authors have announced [Math. Res. Letters 1, 27-34 (1994)] that the logarithmic factor can be dropped if the phase functions are real analytic. The results are applied to obtain estimates for Radon transforms associated to families of curves given by \(y_ i= x_ i+ S_ i(x_ 1,y_ 1)\), \(i= 2,\dots,n\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42B20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 42B25
zbMATH DE Number: 579777
zbMATH Keywords: oscillatory integral operators
zbMATH Keywords: smoothing
zbMATH Keywords: generalized Radon transforms
zbMATH Keywords: stopping time
reviewed by: Andreas Seeger
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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