The behavior of oscillatory integrals with degenerate stationary points (Q1101635)

The author considers the oscillatory integral \(I(\sigma)=\int_{{\mathbb{R}}^ n}e^{i\sigma \phi (x)}\rho (x;\sigma)dx\) \((n=1\) or 2), where \(\rho\) (x;\(\sigma)\) has an asymptotic expansion \(\sum^{\infty}_{j=0}\rho_ j(x)(i\sigma)^{-j}\) (as \(\sigma \to \pm \infty)\). Under some assumptions, which contain the case where \(\phi\) (x) has zeros (stationary points) of infinite order, he derive an estimate of the type \(| I(\sigma)| \geq \delta | \sigma |^{-\alpha}\) (as \(| \sigma | \to \infty)\), together with an application to a scattering inverse problem. In his methods the asymptotic expansion of I(\(\sigma)\) is not employed, and I(\(\sigma)\) is estimated more directly.