SAK principle for a class of Grushin-type operators
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instance of: scholarly article
title: SAK principle for a class of Grushin-type operators
zbMATH Open document ID: 1113.35038
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/455
author: Lidia Maniccia
author: Marco Mughetti
published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
publication date: 2006-12-05T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/41972
review text: In his famous paper [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 9, 129--206 (1983; Zbl 0526.35080)], \textit{C. Fefferman}, building on joint work with \textit{D. H. Phong}, suggests a strategy to get a-priori estimates for pseudodifferential operators, the so-called SAK-principle. Given second order symbols \(p,q\in S^2({\mathbb R}^n)\) (the standard class of pseudodifferential operators on \({\mathbb R}^n\)), with \(p\geq 0,\) the problem is to find conditions on \(q\) in terms of the geometry of \(p\) in order to get the inequality: there exists \(C>0\) such that \[ \|q^w(x,D)u\|_0\leq C\Bigl(\|p^w(x,D)u\|_0+\text{ ``small error''}\Bigr),\quad\forall u\in C_0^\infty.\tag{1} \] Here \(q^w(x,D)\) denotes the Weyl-quantization of the symbol \(q\), and \(\|u\|_0\) is the \(L^2\) norm of \(u\). This is in analogy with the Fefferman-Phong inequality, which says that if \(0\leq p\in S^2\) then \[ (p^w(x,D)u,u)\geq -C\|u\|_0^2,\quad \forall u\in C_0^\infty\leqno(2) \] (see also the paper of \textit{N. Lerner} and \textit{J. Nourrigat} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 40, No. 3, 657--682 (1990; Zbl 0703.35182)], in which they show in the \(1\)-dimensional case that in case the set where the symbol \(p\) is \(\leq 0\) is ``symplectically small'', then estimate \((2)\) holds). Fefferman conjectured that \((1)\) holds when \[ \max_{B_\nu}|q(x,\xi)|\leq c\max_{B_\nu}p(x,\xi), \] where \(\{B_\nu\}_{\nu\in{\mathbb Z}_+}\) is a suitable ``partition'' of the phase space \({\mathbb R}^n\times{\mathbb R}^n\) associated with \(p\) (see [\textit{A. Parmeggiani}, Adv. Math. 131, No. 2, 357--452 (1997; Zbl 0940.35214)], where a direct definition is proposed for the candidate balls \(B_\mu\)). \textit{F. Hérau} proved in [Ann. Inst. Fourier 50, No. 4, 1229--1264 (2000; Zbl 0956.35141)] that \((1)\) holds when \(n=1\) assuming that \[ |q(x,\xi)|\leq cp(x,\xi),\quad \forall (x,\xi)\in{\mathbb R}\times{\mathbb R}. \] In this very nicely written and deep paper, the authors prove \((1)\) in the case \(n=2\) and \(p^…
reviewed by: Alberto Parmeggiani
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35B45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35S05
zbMATH DE Number: 5077183
zbMATH Keywords: SAK-principle
zbMATH Keywords: Grushin-type symbols
zbMATH Keywords: a priori estimates
zbMATH Keywords: Fefferman-Phong inequality
zbMATH Keywords: two levels of microlocalization
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