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A new approach to the
Fourier extension problem for the paraboloid
Camil Muscalu and Itamar Oliveira |
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Vol. 17 (2024), No. 8, 2841–2921
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Abstract |
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We propose a new approach to the Fourier restriction conjectures. It is based on a discretization of the Fourier extension operators in terms of quadratically modulated wave packets. Using this new point of view, and by combining natural scalar and mixed norm quantities from appropriate level sets, we prove that all the -based -linear extension conjectures are true up to the endpoint for every if one of the functions involved is a full tensor. We also introduce the concept of weak transversality, under which we show that all conjectured -based multilinear extension estimates are still true up to the endpoint, provided that one of the functions involved has a weaker tensor structure, and we prove that this result is sharp. Under additional tensor hypotheses, we show that one can improve the conjectured threshold of these problems in some cases. In general, the largely unknown multilinear extension theory beyond inputs remains open even in the bilinear case; with this new point of view, and still under the previous tensor hypothesis, we obtain the near-restriction target for the -linear extension operator if the inputs are in a certain space for sufficiently large. The proof of this result is adapted to show that the -fold product of linear extension operators (no transversality assumed) also “maps near restriction” if one input is a tensor. Finally, we exploit the connection between the geometric features behind the results of this paper and the theory of Brascamp–Lieb inequalities, which allows us to verify a special case of a conjecture by Bennett, Bez, Flock and Lee. |
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Dedicated to the memory of Robert S. Strichartz |
Keywords
Fourier restriction, extension operator, multilinear
restriction, transversality, weak transversality
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Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 42B10, 42B37
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Milestones
Received: 9 June 2022
Revised: 15 February 2023
Accepted: 27 April 2023
Published: 12 October 2024
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Authors |
| Camil Muscalu | |
| Department of Mathematics Cornell University Ithaca, NY United States |
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| Itamar Oliveira | |
| Department of Mathematics Cornell University Ithaca, NY United States |
School of Mathematics University of Birmingham Birmingham United Kingdom |
| © 2024 MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers). Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). |
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