Wave Packets and Eigenvalue Estimates for Limiting Operators on the Disk

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Main Authors: Hughes, Kevin, Israel, Arie, Mayeli, Azita
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author Hughes, Kevin
Israel, Arie
Mayeli, Azita
author_facet Hughes, Kevin
Israel, Arie
Mayeli, Azita
contents We study two-dimensional spatio-spectral limiting operators \[ T_R := P_{D(R)} B_S P_{D(R)} : L^2(\mathbb{R}^2) \rightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R}^2), \] where $D(R)$ is a disk of radius $R>1$, $S\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ is a domain with well-shaped boundary, $P_{D(R)}$ is the orthogonal projection on the subspace of functions supported on $D(R)$, and $B_S$ is the orthogonal projection on the subspace of functions whose Fourier transform is supported on $S$. We construct a disk-adapted wave-packet frame for $L^2(D(R))$ with frame bounds uniform in $R$ using Gevrey-$s$ cutoffs ($s>1$) to obtain near-exponential Fourier localization. Exploiting these localization estimates, we bound the size of the eigenvalue plunge-region for $T_R$ and prove that for each $s>1$ and each $\varepsilon\in(0,1/2)$, \[ \#\{k : λ_k(T_R)\in(\varepsilon,1-\varepsilon)\} = O\!\left(R (\log(R/\varepsilon))^{1+2s}\right), \] with constants depending on $s$ and the geometric parameters of $S$. This bound improves existing plunge-region estimates in the classical setting where both domains are disks, when $\varepsilon$ scales like $R^{-ν}$ for a fixed $ν> 0$. By an affine transformation, the same result holds if $D(R)$ is a scaled ellipse.
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spellingShingle Wave Packets and Eigenvalue Estimates for Limiting Operators on the Disk
Hughes, Kevin
Israel, Arie
Mayeli, Azita
Functional Analysis
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Spectral Theory
Primary 47A10, Secondary 42C15, 42A38
We study two-dimensional spatio-spectral limiting operators \[ T_R := P_{D(R)} B_S P_{D(R)} : L^2(\mathbb{R}^2) \rightarrow L^2(\mathbb{R}^2), \] where $D(R)$ is a disk of radius $R>1$, $S\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ is a domain with well-shaped boundary, $P_{D(R)}$ is the orthogonal projection on the subspace of functions supported on $D(R)$, and $B_S$ is the orthogonal projection on the subspace of functions whose Fourier transform is supported on $S$. We construct a disk-adapted wave-packet frame for $L^2(D(R))$ with frame bounds uniform in $R$ using Gevrey-$s$ cutoffs ($s>1$) to obtain near-exponential Fourier localization. Exploiting these localization estimates, we bound the size of the eigenvalue plunge-region for $T_R$ and prove that for each $s>1$ and each $\varepsilon\in(0,1/2)$, \[ \#\{k : λ_k(T_R)\in(\varepsilon,1-\varepsilon)\} = O\!\left(R (\log(R/\varepsilon))^{1+2s}\right), \] with constants depending on $s$ and the geometric parameters of $S$. This bound improves existing plunge-region estimates in the classical setting where both domains are disks, when $\varepsilon$ scales like $R^{-ν}$ for a fixed $ν> 0$. By an affine transformation, the same result holds if $D(R)$ is a scaled ellipse.
title Wave Packets and Eigenvalue Estimates for Limiting Operators on the Disk
topic Functional Analysis
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Spectral Theory
Primary 47A10, Secondary 42C15, 42A38
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21224