A polynomial Carleson operator along the paraboloid (Q2418891)

Carleson's [1] celebrated proof of the pointwise a.e. convergence of the Fourier series of a square-integrable function involved obtaining an \(L^2\) bound for (what is now called) the Carleson operator. This work inspired a host of further developments -- Hunt's [4] extension of the result to \(L^p\) (for \(p\) bigger than 1 and less than 2), Sjölin's [10] result in higher dimensions, the works of Fefferman [3], Lacey-Thiele [5], Stein-Wainger [13, 14] etc. The paper under review relates to the question of \(L^p\) boundedness of polynomial Carleson operators raised by Stein [12] and is inspired by the method of Stein and Wainger [14] based on van der Corput estimates for oscillatory integrals. The authors introduce polynomial Carleson operators of Radon type, along the paraboloid in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), \(n\geq 2\), and the main result gives \(L^p\) boundedness for a restricted class of polynomials with no linear terms. According to the authors, their `approach succeeds by carefully intertwining the role of the square function, \(TT^*\) methods and van der Corput estimates'. Having in mind the high degree of technical details involved, the authors helpfully devote a section outlining why complications arise in the Radon case and how their new tools help them to overcome these difficulties. The authors, following the work of Stein and Wainger [14], reduce the treatment of their Carleson operator to a family of oscillatory integral operators. But to handle the latter operators in the current Radon setting, their strategy diverges from the approach of Stein and Wainger [14]. They introduce a smoother variant of these integral operators and reduce the problem to obtaining an \(L^2\) bound for the appropriate square function. This boundedness is achieved using highly technical van der Corput estimates in the current setting. To help the reader, several two dimensional examples are discussed before providing the technically demanding general arguments.