Hilbert integrals, singular integrals, and Radon transforms. I (Q1090880)

This paper is a full exposition of a preliminary announcement by the authors [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 7697-7701 (1983; Zbl 0567.42010)]. Here is the contents: Introduction: singular Radon transforms R; the model case; \(L^ p\) estimates, \(1\leq p<\infty\), for R on a smooth manifold \(\Omega\) of dimension \(\geq 3\); similar estimates for the maximal function M; appendix on \(L^ 2\) boundedness of pseudo-differential operators with operator- valued symbols of the class \(S_{,}\); references. In order to obtain a reasonable \(L^ p\) theory, is necessary to impose some curvature condition on the hypersurface \(\Omega_ P\) which supports a singular integral density K(P,\(\cdot)\) with its singularity at P. The estimates for the singular Radon transforms draws on three sources: the idea of twisted convolution for the Heisenberg group, suggestive results of Hörmander on oscillatory integrals and the construction of appropriate analytic families of operators. Singular Radon transforms will be applied, in the next paper of this series, to the Hilbert integral operators as they arise in boundary-value problems, in particular, in the non-coercive case, such as in the \({\bar \partial}\)-Neumann problem for strongly pseudo-convex domains.