Decoupling for fractal subsets of the parabola

Alan Chang, Jaume de Dios Pont, Rachel Greenfeld, Asgar Jamneshan, Zane Kun Li, José Madrid

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Abstract

We consider decoupling for a fractal subset of the parabola. We reduce studying l2Lp decoupling for a fractal subset on the parabola { (t, t2) : 0 ≤ t≤ 1 } to studying l2Lp/3 decoupling for the projection of this subset to the interval [0, 1]. This generalizes the decoupling theorem of Bourgain-Demeter in the case of the parabola. Due to the sparsity and fractal like structure, this allows us to improve upon Bourgain–Demeter’s decoupling theorem for the parabola. In the case when p/3 is an even integer we derive theoretical and computational tools to explicitly compute the associated decoupling constant for this projection to [0, 1]. Our ideas are inspired by the recent work on ellipsephic sets by Biggs (arXiv:1912.04351, 2019 and Acta Arith. 200(4):331–348, 2021) using nested efficient congruencing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1851-1879
Number of pages29
JournalMathematische Zeitschrift
Volume301
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2022
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

JD was partially supported by “La Caixa” Fellowship LCF/ BQ/ AA17/ 11610013. RG was partially supported by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award. AJ was supported by DFG-research fellowship JA 2512/3-1. ZL is supported by NSF grant DMS-1902763. ZL is also grateful to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles for their hospitality when he visited in February 2020. The authors would also like to thank Iqra Altaf, Kirsti Biggs, Julia Brandes, Ciprian Demeter, Bingyang Hu, and Terence Tao for helpful comments, discussions, and suggestions. JD was partially supported by “La Caixa” Fellowship LCF/ BQ/ AA17/ 11610013. RG was partially supported by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award. AJ was supported by DFG-research fellowship JA 2512/3-1. ZL is supported by NSF grant DMS-1902763. ZL is also grateful to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles for their hospitality when he visited in February 2020. The authors would also like to thank Iqra Altaf, Kirsti Biggs, Julia Brandes, Ciprian Demeter, Bingyang Hu, and Terence Tao for helpful comments, discussions, and suggestions.

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationDMS-1902763
University of California
University of Chicago
Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftJA 2512/3-1

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