The first APDE seminar of this semester on Monday, 9/9, will be given by Robert Schippa (UC Berkeley) in-person in Evans 740, and will also be broadcasted online via Zoom from 4:10pm to 5:00pm PST. To participate, please email Federico Pasqualotto () or Mengxuan Yang ().

Title: Quantified decoupling estimates and applications

Abstract: In 2004 Bourgain proved a qualitative trilinear moment inequality for solutions to the Schrödinger equation on the circle and raised the question for quantitative estimates. Here we show quantitative estimates. The proof combines decoupling iterations with semi-classical Strichartz estimates. Related arguments allow us to extend Bourgain’s $L^2$-well-posedness result for the periodic KP-II equation to initial data with negative Sobolev regularity. One key ingredient are $L^4$-Strichartz estimates, which follow from a novel decoupling inequality due to Guth-Maldague-Oh. The latter part of the talk is based on joint work with Sebastian Herr and Nikolay Tzvetkov.