Singular values of compact pseudodifferential operators (Q1376559)

The authors improve a sufficient condition of \textit{I. Daubechies} [Commun. Math. Phys. 75, 229-238 (1980; Zbl 0451.47059)] for a pseudodifferential operator over \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to be of trace-class, namely, if both the symbol of the operator and its Fourier transform lie in a Sobolev space \(H^{n+\varepsilon}({\mathbb{R}}^{2n})\) rather than \(H^{2n+\varepsilon}({\mathbb{R}}^{2n})\). A Gabor frame expansion of the symbol of the Weyl correspondence is used to construct an approximating finite rank operator. This establishes a variety of sufficient conditions for the associated operator to be in a particular Schatten class. They also give a new development and improvement of the Calderón-Vaillancourt theorem for symbols in Hölder-Zygmund classes \(\Lambda^s({\mathbb{R}}^{2n})\). The paper is remarkably self-contained.