A multi-dimensional resolution of singularities with applications to analysis

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Abstract: We formulate a resolution of singularities algorithm for analyzing the zero sets of real-analytic functions in dimensions geq3. Rather than using the celebrated result of Hironaka, the algorithm is modeled on a more explicit and elementary approach used in the contemporary algebraic geometry literature. As an application, we define a new notion of the height of real-analytic functions, compute the critical integrability index and obtain the sharp growth rate of sublevel sets. This also leads to a characterization of the oscillation index of scalar oscillatory integrals with real-analytic phases in all dimensions.


The article presents an algorithm for resolving singularities of a real-analytic function in three or more variables. The motivation is threefold: (i) study the critical integrability index of a real-analytic function \(F\) at a point \(a\in F^{-1}(\{0\})\), that is, the supremum of real numbers \(\mu>0\) such that \(| F|^{-\mu}\) is integrable in a neighborhood of \(a\), (ii) estimate the so-called growth rate of sublevel sets of \(F\), and (iii) describe the oscillation index of a class of scalar oscillatory integrals with real-analytic phase. These problems are of importance in a number of questions in harmonic analysis, PDE, and geometry. The algorithm is based on an elementary and explicit approach using tools from local analytic geometry like the Abhyankar-Jung theorem, Newton polyhedra, fractional power series and multivariate Puiseux expansions, which allows effective computation, as well as several extremal characterizations, of all three aforementioned indices.




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