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On a Restriction Problem of Hickman and Wright for the Parabola in $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ for Squarefree $N$

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-09-15 v1 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

Hickman and Wright proved an L2L^2 restriction estimate for the parabola Σ\Sigma in Z/NZ\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z} of the form (1ΣmΣf^(m)2)12CϵNϵN1(x(Z/NZ)2f(x)65)56\left(\frac{1}{|\Sigma|}\sum\limits_{m\in\Sigma}|\widehat{f}(m)|^2 \right)^{\frac{1}{2}}\leq C_\epsilon N^\epsilon\cdot N^{-1}\left(\sum\limits_{x\in (\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^2}|f(x)|^\frac{6}{5}\right)^\frac{5}{6} for all functions f:(Z/NZ)2Cf:(\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^2\rightarrow \mathbb{C} and any ϵ>0\epsilon>0, and that this bound is sharp when NN has a large square factor, and especially for N=p2N = p^2 for pp a prime. In contrast, Mockenhaupt and Tao proved in the special case N=pN = p the stronger estimate (1ΣmΣf^(m)2)12CN1(x(Z/NZ)2f(x)43)34.\left(\frac{1}{|\Sigma|}\sum\limits_{m\in\Sigma}|\widehat{f}(m)|^2 \right)^{\frac{1}{2}}\leq C N^{-1}\left(\sum\limits_{x\in (\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^2}|f(x)|^\frac{4}{3}\right)^\frac{3}{4}. We extend the Mockenhaupt-Tao bound to the case of squarefree NN, proving (1ΣmΣf^(m)2)12CϵNϵN1(x(Z/NZ)2f(x)43)34,\left(\frac{1}{|\Sigma|}\sum\limits_{m\in\Sigma}|\widehat{f}(m)|^2 \right)^{\frac{1}{2}}\leq C_\epsilon N^\epsilon\cdot N^{-1}\left(\sum\limits_{x\in (\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z})^2}|f(x)|^\frac{4}{3}\right)^\frac{3}{4}, and discuss applications of this result to uncertainty principles and signal recovery.

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@article{arxiv.2509.09885,
  title  = {On a Restriction Problem of Hickman and Wright for the Parabola in $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ for Squarefree $N$},
  author = {Nathaniel Kingsbury-Neuschotz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09885},
  year   = {2025}
}

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