Sharp $L^p$-estimates for maximal operators associated to hypersurfaces in $\bR^3$ for $p>2.$

Isroil A. Ikromov; Michael Kempe; Detlef Müller

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Sharp $L^p$-estimates for maximal operators associated to hypersurfaces in $\bR^3$ for $p>2.$

Isroil A. Ikromov·Michael Kempe·Detlef Müller

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Abstract

We study the boundedness problem for maximal operators $\M$ associated to smooth hypersurfaces $S$ in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. For $p>2,$ we prove that if no affine tangent plane to $S$ passes through the origin and $S$ is analytic, then the associated maximal operator is bounded on $L^p(\RR^3)$ if and only if $p>h(S),$ where $h(S)$ denotes the so-called height of the surface $S.$ For non-analytic finite type $S$ we obtain the same statement with the exception of the exponent $p=h(S).$ Our notion of height $h(S)$ is closely related to A. N. Varchenko's notion of height $h(ϕ)$ for functions $ϕ$ such that $S$ can be locally represented as the graph of $ϕ$ after a rotation of coordinates. Several consequences of this result are discussed. In particular we verify a conjecture by E.M. Stein and its generalization by A. Iosevich and E. Sawyer on the connection between the decay rate of the Fourier transform of the surface measure on $S$ and the $L^p$-boundedness of the associated maximal operator $\M$, and a conjecture by Iosevich and Sawyer which relates the $L^p$-boundedness of $\M$ to an integrability condition on $S$ for the distance function to tangential hyperplanes, in dimension three. In particular, we also give ess. sharp uniform estimates for the Fourier transform of the surface measure on $S,$ thus extending a result by V.N. Karpushkin from the analytic to the smooth setting and implicitly verifying a conjecture by V.I. Arnol'd in our context.

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Isroil A. Ikromov, Michael Kempe, Detlef Müller. 2007-06-07. Sharp $L^p$-estimates for maximal operators associated to hypersurfaces in $\bR^3$ for $p>2.$. https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1006

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