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Fourier transform of a compactly supported distribution is a smooth polynomially bounded multiplier
Statement
Assume Countable Choice. Let have compact support, let be its canonical extension, and let equal one on a neighborhood of . Then is the regular tempered distribution represented by
The function is independent of , is smooth, and for every multi-index there are with . Consequently multiplication by is continuous on and, by transpose, on in both dual topologies.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice, a compactly supported distribution , and a cutoff as in the statement.
The extension is tempered and its pairing with a smooth function is computed using any cutoff equal to one near the support (Compactly supported distributions are tempered, Compactly supported distributions extend to smooth functions).
Compactly supported distribution pairings with smooth parameter families differentiate in the parameter (Distribution pairing with smooth parameter families).
The Fourier transform is defined by bilinear transposition (Fourier transform of a tempered distribution), and the local Schwartz integral lemma permits a seminorm-dominated integral to cross a tempered pairing (Schwartz parameter pairing and integral interchange).
A smooth function whose derivatives grow polynomially is a continuous Schwartz multiplier, as is its transpose (Smooth polynomially bounded multipliers on schwartz space).
Proof
If and are both one near , then vanishes near that support, so [F1] makes its pairing with zero. Thus is cutoff-independent.
Apply smooth parameter differentiation from [F2].
On one fixed compact containing , the finite-order estimate for differentiates the displayed test in only finitely many times. Each resulting term is bounded by a constant times . Hence is smooth and every derivative has the claimed polynomial bound. [F1, F2, algebra]
Let and set . As an -Schwartz family, is continuous in , and every -Schwartz seminorm has an integrable majorant . Thus [F3] applies.
[F1, F3]
Equality in step 1.3 identifies with the regular distribution . The derivative bounds from step 1.2 satisfy [F4], which proves both multiplier assertions. For , ; empty support causes no exception. Countable Choice enters only through the published Fourier and Lebesgue-interchange clauses.
Depends on
- Fourier transform of a tempered distribution
- Compactly supported distributions are tempered
- Compactly supported distributions extend to smooth functions
- Distribution pairing with smooth parameter families
- Smooth polynomially bounded multipliers on schwartz space
- Schwartz parameter pairing and integral interchange
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
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Sources
- Semyon Dyatlov, Lecture notes for 18.155 (2022) (standard reference, not scraped)