Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2008
We prove optimal radially weighted L2-norm inequalities for the Fourier extension operator associated to the unit sphere in ℝn. Such inequalities valid at all scales are well understood. The purpose of this short paper is to establish certain more delicate single-scale versions of these.
All authors were supported by the EC project ‘HARP’. The first was also supported by Spanish Grant BFM02206, the second by EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship GR/S27009/02 and the third by a Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship and EC project ‘Pythagoras’.