Sobolev improving conjecture for non-degenerate curves

Let n2n\geq 2, let IRI\subset\mathbb R be a compact interval, let γ ⁣:IRn\gamma\colon I\to\mathbb R^n be a smooth curve, and let χC(R)\chi\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb R) be a bump function supported on the interior of II. Define

Aγf(x):=Rf(xγ(s))χ(s)ds.A_{\gamma}f(x):=\int_{\mathbb R}f(x-\gamma(s))\chi(s)\,\mathrm{d}s.

The curve γ\gamma is non-degenerate if there is a constant c0>0c_0>0 such that

det(γ(s),,γ(n)(s))c0for all sI.|\det(\gamma'(s),\ldots,\gamma^{(n)}(s))|\geq c_0\qquad\text{for all }s\in I.

Non-degenerate curve Sobolev improving conjecture. If γ\gamma is non-degenerate and 2n2<p<2n-2<p<\infty, then

AγfL1/pp(Rn)p,γ,χfLp(Rn).\|A_{\gamma}f\|_{L^p_{1/p}(\mathbb R^n)}\lesssim_{p,\gamma,\chi}\|f\|_{L^p(\mathbb R^n)}.

This would extend the theorem proved in the paper for curves in R4\mathbb R^4, where the estimate holds for 6<p<6<p<\infty. The conjecture concerns the currently unknown higher-dimensional range of sharp LpL^p-Sobolev improving estimates for averaging over non-degenerate curves.

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David Beltran, Shaoming Guo, Jonathan Hickman and Andreas Seeger, “Sobolev improving for averages over curves in R^4”, arXiv:2102.08806 (2021).

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