Uniform estimates on multi-linear operators with modulation symmetry.(English)Zbl 1041.42013

In earlier work [J. Am. Math. Soc. 15, 469–496 (2002; Zbl 0994.42015)] the authors investigated boundedness properties of multilinear singular integrals associated to an $$n$$-linear form $\Lambda_m (f_1,\dots, f_n)=\int \delta (\xi_1+\cdots +\xi_n) m(\xi) \widehat f_1(\xi)\cdots \widehat f_n(\xi) \, d\xi.$ They proved that if $$m$$ and its derivatives decay at appropriate rates away from a suitably nondegenerate singular subspace $$\Gamma'$$ of $$\Gamma = \{\xi_1+\cdots +\xi_n=0\}$$, then $$\Lambda$$ is bounded from $$\prod_{k=1}^n L^{p_k}$$ to $$\mathbb R$$ in the Hölder range $$\sum 1/p_k =1$$.
In the present paper, the authors restrict to the case in which $$\Gamma'$$ is the line in direction $$V=(v_1,\dots,v_n)$$ with $$\sum v_k=0$$, all $$v_k\neq 0$$, and $$n\geq 3$$. Bounds on $$\Lambda$$ are then obtained with weaker decay conditions on $$m$$ described as follows: for $$x,y\in \Gamma$$ one sets $$d_v (x,y) = \max_{1\leq k\leq n} | x_k-y_k| /| v_k|$$ and $$d_v (x,\Gamma')=\inf_{y\in \Gamma'} d_v(x,y)$$. One then assumes that, for all partial derivatives up to some suitable finite order, one has $$| \partial_\xi^\alpha m(\xi)| \leq C\prod_{k=1}^n | v_k d_v(\xi,\Gamma')| ^{-\alpha_k}$$. Then $$| \Lambda_m (f_1,\dots, f_n)| \leq C\prod_{k=1}^n \| f_k\| _{L^{p_k}}$$ whenever each $$p_k>2$$ and $$\sum_k 1/p_k=1$$.
The proof relies on the same intricate phase space machinery used in the authors’ earlier work. The sharper bounds attained here are only known to apply to one-dimensional singularities because of difficulty in finding a suitable analogue of $$d_v$$ for higher dimensional singularities.

MSC:

 42B20 Singular and oscillatory integrals (Calderón-Zygmund, etc.) 47B38 Linear operators on function spaces (general) 47G10 Integral operators

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