$L^p$-$L^q$ boundedness of integral operators with oscillatory kernels: Linear versus quadratic phases

Abstract

Let $\,T^{j,k}_{N}:L^{p}(B)\, \rightarrow\,L^{q}([0,1])\,$ be the oscillatory integral operators defined by $\;\displaystyle T^{j,k}_{N}f(s):=\int_{B} \,f(x)\,e^{\imath N{|x|}^{j}s^{k}}\,dx, \quad (j,k)\in\{1,2\}^{2},\,$ where $\,B\,$ is the unit ball in ${\mathbb{R}}^{n}\,$ and $\,N\,>>1.$ We compare the asymptotic behaviour as $\,N\rightarrow +\infty\,$ of the operator norms $\,\parallel T^{j,k}_{N} \parallel_ {L^{p}(B)\rightarrow L^{q}([0,1])}\,$ for all $\,p,\,q\in [1,+\infty].\,$ We prove that, except for the dimension $n=1,\,$ this asymptotic behaviour depends on the linearity or quadraticity of the phase in $s$ only. We are led to this problem by an observation on inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation.