van der Corput lemma (harmonic analysis)

In mathematics, in the field of harmonic analysis,

the van der Corput lemma is an estimate for oscillatory integrals

named after the Dutch mathematician J. G. van der Corput.

The following result is stated by E. Stein:Elias Stein, Harmonic Analysis: Real-variable Methods, Orthogonality and Oscillatory Integrals. Princeton University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-691-03216-5}}

Suppose that a real-valued function $\phi(x)$ is smooth in an open interval $(a, b)$ ,

and that $|\phi^{(k)}(x)|\ge 1$ for all $x \in (a, b)$ .

Assume that either $k \ge 2$ , or that

$k = 1$ and $\phi'(x)$ is monotone for $x \in \R$ .

Then there is a constant $c_k$ , which does not depend on $\phi$ ,

such that

: $\bigg|\int_a^b e^{i\lambda\phi(x)}\bigg| \le c_k\lambda^{-1/k}$

for any $\lambda \in \R$ .

Sublevel set estimates

The van der Corput lemma is closely related to the sublevel set estimates,M. Christ, Hilbert transforms along curves, Ann. of Math. 122 (1985), 575–596

which give the upper bound on the measure of the set

where a function takes values not larger than $\epsilon$ .

Suppose that a real-valued function $\phi(x)$ is smooth

on a finite or infinite interval $I \subset \R$ ,

and that $|\phi^{(k)}(x)| \ge 1$ for all $x \in I$ .

There is a constant $c_k$ , which does not depend on $\phi$ ,

such that

for any $\epsilon \ge 0$

the measure of the sublevel set

$\{x \in I: |\phi(x)| \le \epsilon\}$

is bounded by $c_k\epsilon^{1/k}$ .

References

Category:Inequalities (mathematics)

Category:Harmonic analysis

Category:Fourier analysis