Extremizability of Fourier restriction to the paraboloid

Betsy Stovall

Published 2018-04-10, updated 2019-11-08Version 2

In this article, we prove that all global, nonendpoint Fourier restriction inequalities for the paraboloid in $\mathbb R^{1+d}$ have extremizers and that $L^p$-normalized extremizing sequences are precompact modulo symmetries. This result had previously been established for the case $q=2$. In the range where the boundedness of the restriction operator is still an open question, our result is conditional on improvements toward the restriction conjecture.