The global wave front set of tempered oscillatory integrals with inhomogeneous phase functions (Q485192)

In this very interesting paper, the authors expand the theory of oscillatory integrals, and wave-front sets based on the Schwartz space \(\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^d)\) (denoted, for a tempered distribution \(f\) by \(\mathrm{WF}_{\mathcal{S}}(f)\), which measures the lack of smoothness and of decay of \(f\) at infinity), with the spectral analysis of singularities of certain tempered distributions \(I_a(\varphi)\) given by generalized oscillatory integrals, where \[ \langle I_a(\varphi)|u\rangle=\iint e^{i\varphi(x,\xi)}a(x,\xi)u(x)d\xi dx,\,\,\,\,u\in\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^d), \] where the phase-function \(\varphi\) is defined on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) and satisfies suitable conditions (avoiding the standard homogeneity requirement), and the amplitude \(a\) belongs to suitable \(\mathrm{SG}\) symbol classes. Their main result may be formulated, roughly speaking, in the following way: If \(\varphi\) and \(a\) are, respectively, an ``admissible'' phase-function and amplitude, one has the inclusion \[ \mathrm{WF}_{\mathcal{S}}(I_\varphi(a))\subset\mathrm{SP}_\varphi, \] with \(\mathrm{SP}_\varphi\) being the (generalized) set of stationary points of \(\varphi\) in \(\partial(\mathbb{B}^d\times\mathbb{B}^d),\) where \(\mathbb{B}^d=\mathbb{R}^d\sqcup\mathbb{S}^{d-1}\) is the directional compactification of \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The author then give applications to the study of some properties of the two-point function of a free, massive, scalar relativistic field and of classes of global Fourier integral operators in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) (defined through kernels of the form \(I_a(\varphi)\)).