Multi-scale bilinear restriction estimates for general phases

Abstract

We prove (adjoint) bilinear restriction estimates for general phases at different scales in the full non-endpoint mixed norm range, and give bounds with a sharp and explicit dependence on the phases. These estimates have applications to high-low frequency interactions for solutions to partial differential equations, as well as to the linear restriction problem for surfaces with degenerate curvature. As a consequence, we obtain new bilinear restriction estimates for elliptic phases and wave/Klein-Gordon interactions in the full bilinear range, and give a refined Strichartz inequality for the Klein-Gordon equation. In addition, we extend these bilinear estimates to hold in adapted function spaces by using a transference type principle which holds for vector valued waves.

v2: added an improved atomic, or U^p, version of main theorem