Restriction and spectral multiplier theorems on asymptotically conic manifolds

Abstract

The classical Stein-Tomas restriction theorem is equivalent to the statement that the spectral measure $dE(\hat{I}»)$ of the square root of the Laplacian on $\RR^n$ is bounded from $L^p(\RR^n)$ to $L^{p'}(\RR^n)$ for $1\le p\le 2(n+1)/(n+3)$, where $p^{\prime }$ is the conjugate exponent to $p$, with operator norm scaling as $\hat{I}{»}^{n(1/p-1/p^{\prime })-1}$. We prove a geometric generalization in which the Laplacian on $\RR^n$ is replaced by the Laplacian, plus suitable potential, on a nontrapping asymptotically conic manifold, which is the first time such a result has been proven in the variable coefficient setting. It is closely related to, but stronger than, Sogge's discrete $L^2$ restriction theorem, which is an $O(\hat{I}{»}^{n(1/p-1/p^{\prime })-1})$ estimate on the $L^p\to L^{p^{\prime }}$ operator norm of the spectral projection for a spectral window of fixed length. From this, we deduce spectral multiplier estimates for these operators, including Bochner-Riesz summability results, which are sharp for $p$ in the range above.

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