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Both analytic normal directions at a flat support boundary
Statement
Let be a distribution near , vanishing where . If either or is absent from its Gaussian analytic wavefront set, then on a neighborhood of . Equivalently, if , both normal orientations belong to that wavefront set. The assertion also holds with the two half-spaces interchanged.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: The distribution and one of the two absent oriented normals in the statement.
Local analytic elliptic packet reconstruction permits a bounded open neighborhood of nonzero frequency parameters and gives fixed-order exponential localization errors.
Boundary maximum modulus principle on a bounded domain bounds a holomorphic function by its boundary modulus on a bounded domain.
Compactly supported distributions extend to smooth functions permits pairing a localized distribution with Gaussian functions and differentiating such pairings by fixed-support seminorm estimates.
Support of a distribution characterizes vanishing on open sets by support.
Proof
Given: The data in the statement.
Multiply by a compact smooth cutoff equal to one near and supported where the one-sided hypothesis holds. It remains supported in , and the wavefront hypothesis is unchanged by exponential Gaussian tail estimates. Denote this compact distribution again by and put This is entire by [F3]. A finite distributional derivative order gives the following bound on every fixed bounded complex set: where . To justify the sharp half-space bound for a distribution, insert a smooth factor that is one for and zero for . It equals one on a neighborhood of the support, so does not change the pairing. Its derivatives of each fixed order cost only a power of . On its support, , and gives the bound with in place of . Their difference is uniformly for bounded , so it changes the exponential by a bounded factor. Gaussian derivatives contribute another fixed power of . This proves the displayed bound using the ordinary fixed-support distributional seminorm, without assuming an estimate on the exact support set.
We record the elementary quantitative continuation used in the left half-plane. If a holomorphic is bounded by on a disk of radius and by on the concentric disk of radius , then on the disk of radius , For the annulus compare with the harmonic function that is on the inner circle and on the outer circle. This comparison follows from [F2]: near any hypothetical positive interior maximum of their difference, subtract a local harmonic conjugate and apply the maximum modulus principle; a small strict harmonic perturbation excludes a non-strict maximum, then let that perturbation decrease to zero. Zeros of cannot be positive maxima. Chaining finitely many overlapping disks contained in the connected left half-plane propagates a strictly positive exponent from the initial disk to any chosen compact subset there. To make the finite chain explicit, cover a polygonal path from the initial disk to the compact set by equal small disks whose doubled disks lie in the half-plane, take successive center distances less than one quarter of the radius, and iterate the displayed estimate. The exponent is multiplied by finitely many positive radius ratios.
Write . The identity and [F1] imply that absence of either normal gives in a fixed complex neighborhood of for some . The use of [F1] here is only to let range over an open ball about , rather than the unit sphere. Fix a small neighborhood of and treat as a parameter. For each such the holomorphic function of one variable satisfies on bounded rectangles. On one small disk lying in near it satisfies : in this regularity estimate the additional exponent is , which is less than after shrinking that disk. Constants are uniform in .
Divide by its uniform polynomial bound . In the left half-plane this quotient has modulus at most . Step 1.2 gives such that on the segment , , it is at most , after decreasing and taking large. The same construction works whether the initial disk is near or ; both lie in the same connected left half-plane neighborhood joined by a bounded path to this segment. All paths, rectangles and constants can be fixed uniformly for the chosen parameters.
Extend to the rectangle , , where will be small. For define This is harmonic, nonnegative in the rectangle, zero on the top, bottom and right sides, and between zero and one on its left side. For , the global bound in step 2.1 and the left-side improvement give, by [F2] with a harmonic conjugate of , On the left the proposed upper bound is at least , and on the other three sides it is , so all boundary inequalities hold. At , for sufficiently small , with fixed . Choose so . Continuity then gives a fixed disk about on which for some . This is the needed strict improvement across the boundary.
For real in a sufficiently small neighborhood of , the exponential factors defining give . On this real neighborhood the normalized Gaussian convolutions converge distributionally to . For completeness, after pairing with a compact test , Fubini for a compact distribution and a rapidly decreasing Gaussian writes the pairing as , where has mass one. Every fixed derivative of tends uniformly to zero on the support compact: split the integral into , where uniform continuity controls the translated derivative, and , where the Gaussian tail tends to zero; the same argument bounds the derivatives outside the test support. Thus [F3] proves the asserted distributional convergence. The exponential bound makes its limit zero for tests in the smaller neighborhood, so there. Reflecting interchanges the half-spaces and interchanges the two normal orientations. Both claims follow without a reality assumption on .
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Sources
- Johannes Sjöstrand, Singularités analytiques microlocales (standard reference, not scraped)