Sogge's local smoothing conjecture for the wave equation

Let uu solve the wave equation Cauchy problem

(t2Δ)u(x,t)=0,(\partial_t^2-\Delta)u(x,t)=0,

with u(x,0)=f(x)u(x,0)=f(x) and tu(x,0)=0\partial_tu(x,0)=0 on Rd×R\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{R}. For sp=d12d1ps_p=\frac{d-1}{2}-\frac{d-1}{p}, Sogge's conjecture. For all p2dd1p\geq\frac{2d}{d-1},

uLp(Rd×[1,2])εfLsp1/p+εp(Rd).\|u\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^d\times[1,2])}\lesssim_{\varepsilon}\|f\|_{L^p_{s_p-1/p+\varepsilon}(\mathbb{R}^d)}.

This conjecture predicts a gain of 1/p1/p derivative from local time averaging. The source presents it as a conjecture, although the supplied parser marks it resolved; the precise resolution and scope should be checked.

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Primary source

Tainara Borges, Benjamin Foster, Yumeng Ou and Eyvindur Palsson, “Nonempty interior of pinned distance and tree sets”, arXiv:2503.15709 (2026).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2502.05973, arXiv:2207.00652, arXiv:2110.01969, arXiv:2108.06870, arXiv:1812.11616, arXiv:1706.09851.

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