Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 Analysis Seminars

Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 Analysis Seminar Series

The seminar will meet Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m. in VV B139, unless otherwise indicated.

If you wish to invite a speaker please contact Brian at street(at)math

Analysis Seminar Schedule

date	speaker	institution	title	host(s)
Sept 10	José Madrid	UCLA	On the regularity of maximal operators on Sobolev Spaces	Andreas, David
Sept 13 (Friday, B139)	Yakun Xi	University of Rochester	Distance sets on Riemannian surfaces and microlocal decoupling inequalities	Shaoming
Sept 17	Joris Roos	UW Madison	L^p improving estimates for maximal spherical averages	Brian
Sept 20 (2:25 PM Friday, Room B139 VV)	Xiaojun Huang	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	A generalized Kerner theorem and hyperbolic metrics on Stein spaces with compact spherical boundaries	Xianghong
Oct 1	Xiaocheng Li	UW Madison	An Estimate for Spherical Functions on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$	Simon
Oct 8	Jeff Galkowski	Northeastern University	Concentration and Growth of Laplace Eigenfunctions	Betsy
Oct 15	David Beltran	UW Madison	Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function	Brian
Oct 22	Laurent Stolovitch	University of Côte d'Azur	Linearization of neighborhoods of embeddings of complex compact manifolds	Xianghong
Wednesday Oct 23 in B129	Dominique Kemp	Indiana University	Decoupling for Real Analytic Surfaces Exhibiting Zero Curvature	Betsy
Oct 29	Bingyang Hu	UW Madison	Sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms	Brian
Nov 5	Kevin O'Neill	UC Davis	A Quantitative Stability Theorem for Convolution on the Heisenberg Group	Betsy
Nov 12	Francesco di Plinio	Washington University in St. Louis	Maximal directional integrals along algebraic and lacunary sets	Shaoming
Nov 13 (Wednesday)	Xiaochun Li	UIUC	Roth's type theorems on progressions	Brian, Shaoming
Nov 19	Joao Ramos	University of Bonn	Fourier uncertainty principles, interpolation and uniqueness sets	Joris, Shaoming
Jan 21	No Seminar
Friday, Jan 31, 4 pm, B239, Colloquium	Lillian Pierce	Duke University	On Bourgain’s counterexample for the Schrödinger maximal function	Andreas, Simon
Feb 4	Ruixiang Zhang	UW Madison	Local smoothing for the wave equation in 2+1 dimensions	Andreas
Feb 11	Zane Li	Indiana University	A bilinear proof of decoupling for the moment curve	Betsy
Feb 18	Sergey Denisov	UW Madison	De Branges canonical systems with finite logarithmic integral	Brian
Feb 25	Michel Alexis	UW Madison	The Steklov problem for trigonometric polynomials orthogonal to a Muckenhoupt weight	Sergey
Friday, Feb 28 (Colloquium)	Brett Wick	Washington University - St. Louis	The Corona Theorem	Andreas
Mar 3	William Green	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Dispersive estimates for the Dirac equation	Betsy
Mar 10	Ziming Shi	UW Madison	On the Sobolev space property of logarithmic modulus of holomorphic functions in C^n	Xianghong
Mar 17	Spring Break!
Mar 24	Oscar Dominguez	Universidad Complutense de Madrid	Canceled	Andreas
Mar 31	Brian Street	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Canceled	Local
Apr 7	Hong Wang	Institution	Canceled	Street
Monday, Apr 13	Yumeng Ou	CUNY, Baruch College	Canceled	Ruixiang
Apr 14	Tamás Titkos	BBS University of Applied Sciences & Rényi Institute	Canceled	Brian
Apr 21	Diogo Oliveira e Silva	University of Birmingham	Canceled	Betsy
Apr 28	No Seminar
May 5	Jonathan Hickman	University of Edinburgh	Canceled	Andreas
Nov 17, 2020	Tamás Titkos	BBS University of Applied Sciences & Rényi Institute		Brian

Abstracts

José Madrid

Title: On the regularity of maximal operators on Sobolev Spaces

Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the regularity properties (boundedness and continuity) of the classical and fractional maximal operators when these act on the Sobolev space W^{1,p}(\R^n). We will focus on the endpoint case p=1. We will talk about some recent results and current open problems.

Yakun Xi

Title: Distance sets on Riemannian surfaces and microlocal decoupling inequalities

Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the generalization of the Falconer distance problem to the Riemannian setting. In particular, we extend the recent result of Guth-Iosevich-Ou-Wang for the distance set in the plane to general Riemannian surfaces. The key new ingredient is a family of refined decoupling inequalities associated with phase functions that satisfy Carleson-Sj\”olin condition. This is joint work with Iosevich and Liu.

Joris Roos

Title: L^p improving estimates for maximal spherical averages

Abstract: For a given compact set of radii $E$ we will discuss $L^p$ improving properties of maximal spherical averages with a supremum over $E$. Our results are sharp up to endpoints for a large class of $E$. A new feature is that the optimal exponents depend on both, the upper Minkowski dimension and the Assouad dimension of the set $E$. Joint work with Tess Anderson, Kevin Hughes and Andreas Seeger.

Joao Ramos

Title: Fourier uncertainty principles, interpolation and uniqueness sets

Abstract: A classical result in the theory of entire functions of exponential type, Shannon’s interpolation formula predicates that, given a function whose Fourier transform vanishes outside the interval $[-1/2,1/2]$, it is possible to recover it from its values at the integers. More specifically, it holds, in a suitable sense of convergence, that

$$ f(x) = \sum_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} f(n) \frac{\sin(\pi(x-n))}{\pi(x -n)}. $$

This formula is unfortunately unavailable for arbitrary Schwartz functions on the real line, but a recent result of Radchenko and Viazovska provides us with an explicit construction of an interpolation basis for even Schwartz functions. It states, in a nutshell, that we can recover explicitly the function given its values at the squares of roots of integers.

We will discuss a bit these two results, and explore, in connection to classical Fourier uncertainty results, the question of determining which pairs of sets $(A,B)$ satisfy that, if a Schwartz function $f$ vanishes on A and its Fourier transform vanishes on B, then $f \equiv 0.$

In particular, we will give sufficient conditions on $(\alpha,\beta)$ pairs of positive numbers so that, if $f$ vanishes at $\pm n^{\alpha}$ and its Fourier transform vanishes at $\pm n^{\beta}$, then $f$ is identically zero.

Xiaojun Huang

Title: A generalized Kerner theorem and hyperbolic metrics on Stein spaces with compact spherical boundaries

Abstract: This is a joint work with Ming Xiao. We discuss how to construct a hyperbolic metric over a Stein space with spherical boundary. The technique we use is to employ holomorphic continuation along curves for multiple valued functions.

Xiaocheng Li

Title: An Estimate for Spherical Functions on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$

Abstract: We prove an estimate for spherical functions $\phi_\lambda(a)$ on $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$, establishing uniform decay in the spectral parameter $\lambda$ when the group parameter $a$ is restricted to a compact subset of the abelian subgroup $\mathrm{A}$. In the case of $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$, it improves a result by J.J. Duistermaat, J.A.C. Kolk and V.S. Varadarajan by removing the limitation that $a$ should remain regular. As in their work, we estimate the oscillatory integral that appears in the integral formula for spherical functions by the method of stationary phase. However, the major difference is that we investigate the stability of the singularities arising from the linearized phase function by classifying their local normal forms when the parameters $\lambda$ and $a$ vary.

Xiaochun Li

Title: Roth’s type theorems on progressions

Abstract: The arithmetic progression problems were posed by Erd\”os-Turan, answered affirmatively by Semer\’edi. However, there are still many questions remained on precise quantitative description on how large a subset shall be in oredr to guarantee a progression in it. Involving with Fourier analysis, considerable work had been accomplished recently. We will give a survey on those progress, and report our recent progress on quantitative version of Roth’s type theorem on (polynomial) progressions of short length.

Jeff Galkowski

Concentration and Growth of Laplace Eigenfunctions

In this talk we will discuss a new approach to understanding eigenfunction concentration. We characterize the features that cause an eigenfunction to saturate the standard supremum bounds in terms of the distribution of L^2 mass along geodesic tubes emanating from a point. We also show that the phenomena behind extreme supremum norm growth is identical to that underlying extreme growth of eigenfunctions when averaged along submanifolds. Finally, we use these ideas to understand a variety of measures of concentration; in each case obtaining quantitative improvements over the known bounds.

David Beltran

Title: Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function

Abstract: I will report some recent progress regarding the boundedness of the map $f \mapsto |\nabla M_\beta f|$ from the endpoint space $W^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ to $L^{d/(d-\beta)}(\mathbb{R}^d)$, where $M_\beta$ denotes the fractional version of the centered Hardy--Littlewood maximal function. A key step in our analysis is a relation between the centered and non-centered fractional maximal functions at the derivative level, which allows to exploit the known techniques in the non-centered case.

This is joint work with José Madrid.

Dominique Kemp

Decoupling for Real Analytic Surfaces Exhibiting Zero Curvature

The celebrated l^2 decoupling theorem of Jean Bourgain and Ciprian Demeter presented a new perspective on a range of problems related to hypersurfaces with nonzero Gaussian curvature, such as exponential sum estimates, additive energy estimates, local smoothing, and counting solutions to Diophantine inequalities. The same authors also extended their theory to the n-dimensional cone. Following their steps, we prove optimal l^2 decoupling results for the remaining class of zero-curvature two-dimensional surfaces without umbilical points (the so-called tangent surfaces). We are also able to prove a decoupling theorem for the real analytic surfaces of revolution. These results should be viewed as partial progress toward the goal of proving a decoupling theorem for arbitrary real analytic hypersurfaces.

Kevin O'Neill

A Quantitative Stability Theorem for Convolution on the Heisenberg Group

Although convolution on Euclidean space and the Heisenberg group satisfy the same $L^p$ bounds with the same optimal constants, the former has maximizers while the latter does not. However, as work of Christ has shown, it is still possible to characterize near-maximizers. Specifically, any near-maximizing triple of the trilinear form for convolution on the Heisenberg group must be close to a particular type of triple of ordered Gaussians after adjusting by symmetry. In this talk, we will use the expansion method to prove a quantitative version of this characterization.

Francesco di Plinio

Maximal directional integrals along algebraic and lacunary sets

I will discuss two recent results obtained in collaboration with (partly) Natalia Accomazzo and Ioannis Parissis (U Basque Country). The first is a sharp $L^2$ estimate for the maximal averaging operator associated to sets of directions from algebraic sets in R^n of arbitrary codimension. The proof uses a new scheme of polynomial partitioning on manifolds which extends ideas by Larry Guth. The second result is a sharp estimate in all dimensions for the maximal directional singular integrals along lacunary directions. This settles a question of Parcet and Rogers. The proof uses a combination of two-dimensional and $n$-dimensional coverings combining seemingly contrasting ideas of Parcet-Rogers and of Nagel-Stein-Wainger.

Laurent Stolovitch

Linearization of neighborhoods of embeddings of complex compact manifolds

In this work, we address the following question due to Grauert: if a neighborhood M of a holomorphically embedded complex compact manifold C is formally equivalent to another one, are two neighborhoods biholomorphically equivalent? We shall present the case where the other neighborhood is the neighborhood of the zero section of the normal bundle of C in M. The solution to this problem involves "small divisors problems". This is joint work with X. Gong.

Bingyang Hu

Sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms

In this talk, we will first briefly talk about the general theory of sparse domination, and then talk about the sparse bounds of singular Radon transforms, which strengths the $L^p$ boundedness of such operators due to Christ, Nagel, Stein and Wainger in 1999.

Lillian Pierce

On Bourgain’s counterexample for the Schrödinger maximal function

In 1980, Carleson asked a question in harmonic analysis: to which Sobolev space H^s must an initial data function belong, for a pointwise a.e. convergence result to hold for the solution to the associated linear Schrödinger equation? Over the next decades, many people developed counterexamples to push the (necessary) range of s up, and positive results to push the (sufficient) range of s down. Now, these ranges are finally meeting: Bourgain’s 2016 counterexample showed s < n/(2(n+1)) fails, and Du and Zhang’s 2019 paper shows that s>n/(2(n+1)) suffices. In this talk, we will give an overview of how to rigorously derive Bourgain’s 2016 counterexample, based on simple facts from number theory. We will show how to build Bourgain’s counterexample starting from “zero knowledge," and how to gradually optimize the set-up to arrive at the final counterexample. The talk will be broadly accessible, particularly if we live up to the claim of starting from “zero knowledge.”

Ruixiang Zhang

Local smoothing for the wave equation in 2+1 dimensions

Sogge's local smoothing conjecture for the wave equation predicts that the local L^p space-time estimate gains a fractional derivative of order almost 1/p compared to the fixed time L^p estimates, when p>2n/(n-1). Jointly with Larry Guth and Hong Wang, we recently proved the conjecture in $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$. I will talk about a sharp square function estimate we proved which implies the local smoothing conjecture in dimensions 2+1. A key ingredient in the proof is an incidence type theorem.

Zane Li

A bilinear proof of decoupling for the moment curve

We give a proof of decoupling for the moment curve that is inspired from nested efficient congruencing. We also discuss the relationship between Wooley's nested efficient congruencing and Bourgain-Demeter-Guth's decoupling proofs of Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem. This talk is based on joint work with Shaoming Guo, Po-Lam Yung, and Pavel Zorin-Kranich.

Sergey Denisov

De Branges canonical systems with finite logarithmic integral

We consider measures m on the real line for which logarithmic integral exists and give a complete characterization of all Hamiltonians in de Branges canonical system for which m is the spectral measure. This characterization involves the matrix A_2 Muckenhoupt condition on a fixed scale. Our result provides a generalization of the classical theorem of Szego for polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle and complements the Krein-Wiener theorem. Based on the joint work with R. Bessonov.

Michel Alexis

The Steklov problem for Trigonometric Polynomials orthogonal to a Muckenhoupt weight

Let $\{\varphi_n\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ be the sequence of degree $n$ polynomials on $\mathbb{T}$, orthonormal with respect to a positive weight $w$. Steklov conjectured whenever $w \geq \delta> 0$ a.e.\ then $\{\varphi_n\}$ are uniformly bounded in $L^{\infty}$. While false, this conjecture brings us to ask the following: under what regularity conditions on $w$ are $\{\varphi_n\}$ uniformly bounded in $L^p (w)$ for some $p > 2$?

We discuss some answers to this question using the contraction principle and operator estimates for the Hilbert transform, in particular recent joint work with Alexander Aptakarev and Sergey Denisov for when $w$ is a Muckenhoupt weight.

William Green

Dispersive estimates for the Dirac equation

The Dirac equation was derived by Dirac in 1928 to model the behavior of subatomic particles moving at relativistic speeds. Dirac formulated a hyberbolic system of partial differential equations That can be interpreted as a sort of square root of a system of Klein-Gordon equations.

The Dirac equation is considerably less well studied than other dispersive equations such as the Schrodinger, wave or Klein-Gordon equations. We will survey recent work on time-decay estimates for the solution operator. Specifically the mapping properties of the solution operator between L^p spaces. As in other dispersive equations, the existence of eigenvalues and/or resonances at the edge of the continuous spectrum affects the dynamics of the solution. We classify the threshold eigenvalue and resonance structure in two and three spatial dimensions and study their effect on the time decay. The talk with survey joint works with B. Erdogan (Illinois), M. Goldberg (Cincinnati) and E. Toprak (Rutgers).

Yifei Pan

On the Sobolev space property of logarithmic modulus of holomorphic functions in C^n

In this talk, I will present a proof of the following Sobolev space property of logarithmic modulus of holomorphic functions in C^n. If f is a holomorphic function on the unit ball B(0,1) in C^n vanishing at the origin (i.e., f(0) = 0) but it is not identically zero, then log |f| ∈ W^{1,p}(B(0, r)) for any p < 2, but log |f| is not in W^{1,2}(B(0, r)) (r < 1). As you may see, this result is rather simple to prove in the complex plane due to the discreteness of zeros of holomorphic functions. In higher dimensions, we are going to apply Hironaka’s resolution of singularity and then Harvey- Polking removable singularity method to prove the existence of weak derivatives of log |f(z)|. This is part of a joint project with Ziming Shi at Madison.

Tamás Titkos

Isometries of Wasserstein spaces

Due to its nice theoretical properties and an astonishing number of applications via optimal transport problems, probably the most intensively studied metric nowadays is the $p$-Wasserstein metric. Given a complete and separable metric space $X$ and a real number $p\geq1$, one defines the $p$-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_p(X)$ as the collection of Borel probability measures with finite $p$-th moment, endowed with a distance which is calculated by means of transport plans.

The main aim of our research project is to reveal the structure of the isometry group $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$. Although $\mathrm{Isom}(X)$ embeds naturally into $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(X))$ by push-forward, and this embedding turned out to be surjective in many cases, these two groups are not isomorphic in general. Recently, Kloeckner described the isometry group of the quadratic Wasserstein space over the real line. It turned out that this group is extremely rich: it contains a flow of wild behaving isometries that distort the shape of measures. Following this line of investigation, we described $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p(\mathbb{R}))$ and $\mathrm{Isom}(\mathcal{W}_p([0,1])$ for all $p\geq 1$. In this talk I will survey first some of the earlier results in the subject, and then I will present the key results of our recent manuscript \emph{"Isometric study of Wasserstein spaces -- The real line"} (to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., arXiv:2002.00859).

Joint work with György Pál Gehér (University of Reading) and Dániel Virosztek (IST Austria).