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Quantitative Fourier Restriction Estimates for Weyl Operators: Fourier-Support Dependence and Lower Bounds

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2026-07-15 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The Weyl calculus associates a function aa on phase space R2d\mathbb{R}^{2d} with the corresponding Weyl operator LaL_a acting on L2(Rd)L^2(\mathbb{R}^d). At p=2p=2, this correspondence is governed by an exact Hilbert--Schmidt identity. For p2p\neq2, two-sided LpL^p--Schatten estimates are known for Paley--Wiener type symbols, with constants depending on the Fourier-support scale. We study this quantitative dependence, improve the known upper bounds, and show that in large ranges of pp no support-independent global comparison can hold. Let FσF_{\sigma} denote the symplectic Fourier transform, and let uE(R2d)u\in E'(\mathbb{R}^{2d}) satisfy suppuB(z0,R)\operatorname{supp}u\subset\overline{B(z_0,R)}, where R1R\geq1. Then, for every 1p1\leq p\leq\infty and ε>0\varepsilon>0, we prove LFσuSpd,p,εR(2d+1+ε)12/pFσuLp(R2d), \|L_{F_{\sigma} u}\|_{S_p}\lesssim_{d,p,\varepsilon}R^{(2d+1+\varepsilon)|1-2/p|}\, \|F_{\sigma} u\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^{2d})}, together with the reverse estimate with the same power of RR. This sharpens the exponential dependence ecR2\mathrm{e}^{cR^2} obtained by Luef and Samuelsen and M\"uller's polynomial dependence R(5d+2)12/pR^{(5d+2)|1-2/p|}. The main ingredient is a radial trace-class estimate based on the Hermite--Laguerre correspondence ρ(φk)=Pk\rho(\varphi_k)=P_k, which reduces the relevant Weyl operators to finite-rank Hermite projections. We also show that dependence on RR is unavoidable. Compactly supported examples obtained by truncating Laguerre functions yield polynomial lower bounds for the best comparison constants. These examples refine M\"uller's operator-norm example and give nontrivial lower bounds for a larger range of Schatten exponents, which can cover the full range 1p1\le p\le\infty except for the Hilbert--Schmidt point p=2p=2 as dd\to\infty. Moreover, for every fixed p>2p>2, the exponent in the reverse comparison estimate is asymptotically optimal as dd\to\infty.

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@article{arxiv.2607.13697,
  title  = {Quantitative Fourier Restriction Estimates for Weyl Operators: Fourier-Support Dependence and Lower Bounds},
  author = {Jie Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13697},
  year   = {2026}
}