Uniform Sobolev estimates for non-trapping metrics

Abstract

We prove uniform Sobolev estimates $||u||_{L^{p'}} \leq C ||(\Delta-\alpha)u||_{L^{p}}$, where $p=2n/(n+2), p'=2n/(n-2)$, for the Laplacian $\Delta$ on non-trapping asymptotically conic manifolds of dimension $n$. Here C is independent of $\alpha$ which ranges over all complex numbers. This generalizes to non-constant coefficient Laplacians a result of Kenig-Ruiz-Sogge.