Decay of the Fourier transform of surfaces with vanishing curvature

Abstract

We prove $L^p$-bounds on the Fourier transform of measures $\mu$ supported on two dimensional surfaces. Our method allows to consider surfaces whose Gauss curvature vanishes on a one-dimensional submanifold. Under a certain non-degeneracy condition, we prove that $\wh\mu\in L^{4+\beta}$, $\beta>0$, and we give a logarithmically divergent bound on the $L^4$-norm. We use this latter bound to estimate almost singular integrals involving the dispersion relation, $e(p)= \sum_1^3 [1-\cos p_j]$, of the discrete Laplace operator on the cubic lattice. We briefly explain our motivation for this bound originating in the theory of random Schr\"odinger operators.