Damping Oscillatory Integrals with Polynomial Phase and Convolution Operators with the Affine Arclength Measure on Polynomial Curves in R^<i>n</i> (Q4487532)

In [Math. Scand. 73, No. 2, 215-228 (1993; Zbl 0854.42010)], \textit{D. McMichael} proved that the convolution with the (Euclidean) arclength measure supported on the curve \(t\to (t,t^2,\dots, t^n)\), \(0< t< 1\), maps \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)\) boundedly into \(L^{p'}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) if and only if \(2n(n+ 1)/(n^2+ n+ 2)\leq p\leq 2\). In proving this, a uniform estimate on damping oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase is crucial. In this reviewed paper, the author presents a simple proof of the same estimate on oscillatory integrals. In addition, with a minor change in the analytic family of operators and using the affine arclength measure instead of the Euclidean one, the author extends McMichael's result to general polynomial curves in the case \(p= 2n(n+ 1)/(n^2+ n+2)\). More precisely, the author obtains the following: Theorem 1.3. Let \(p_1(t),\dots, p_n(t)\in{\mathcal P}_N(\mathbb{R})\). Let \(\gamma(t)= (p_1(t),\dots, p_n(t))\) and \[ \lambda(t)= |\text{det}(p^{(j)}_i(t))_{1\leq i,j\leq n}|^{2/n(n+ 1)}. \] Define \(T\) by \[ Tf(x)= \int_{\mathbb{R}} f(x- \gamma(t)) \lambda(t) dt. \] Then, there exists a constant \(C\) depending only on \(N\) such that \(\|Tf\|_{p'}\leq C\|f\|_p\) with \(p= 2n(n+ 1)/(n^2+ n+ 2)\).