Cancellation for the multilinear Hilbert transform

Abstract: For any natural number

k

, consider the

k

-linear Hilbert transform

H_k( f_1,dots,f_k )(x) := operatorname{p.v.} int_{�f R} f_1(x+t) dots f_k(x+kt) frac{dt}{t}

for test functions

. It is conjectured that

H_{k}

maps

whenever

1 < p_{1}, d o t s, p_{k}, p < i n f t y

and

f r a c 1 p = f r a c 1 p_{1} + d o t s + f r a c 1 p_{k}

. This is proven for

k = 1, 2

, but remains open for larger

k

. In this paper, we consider the truncated operators

H_{k,r,R}( f_1,dots,f_k )(x) := int_{r leq |t| leq R} f_1(x+t) dots f_k(x+kt) frac{dt}{t}

for

R > r > 0

. The above conjecture is equivalent to the uniform boundedness of

in

r, R

, whereas the Minkowski and H"older inequalities give the trivial upper bound of

2 l o g f r a c R r

for this quantity. By using the arithmetic regularity and counting lemmas of Green and the author, we improve the trivial upper bound on

slightly to

o (l o g f r a c R r)

in the limit

f r a c R r o i n f t y

for any admissible choice of

k

and

p_{1}, d o t s, p_{k}, p

. This establishes some cancellation in the

k

-linear Hilbert transform

H_{k}

, but not enough to establish its boundedness in

L^{p}

spaces.

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