Boundedness of Fourier Integral Operators on $\mathcal{F} L^p$ spaces

Elena Cordero, Fabio Nicola, Luigi Rodino

Published 2008-01-09, updated 2008-04-24Version 3

We study the action of Fourier Integral Operators (FIOs) of H{\"o}rmander's type on ${\mathcal{F}} L^p({\mathbb {R}}^d_{comp}$, $1\leq p\leq\infty$. We see, from the Beurling-Helson theorem, that generally FIOs of order zero fail to be bounded on these spaces when $p\not=2$, the counterexample being given by any smooth non-linear change of variable. Here we show that FIOs of order $m=-d|1/2-1/p|$ are instead bounded. Moreover, this loss of derivatives is proved to be sharp in every dimension $d\geq1$, even for phases which are linear in the dual variables. The proofs make use of tools from time-frequency analysis such as the theory of modulation spaces.