Hausdorff–Young inequality

In mathematics, the Hausdorff−Young inequality bounds the Lq-norm of the Fourier coefficients of a periodic function for q  2. William Henry Young (1913) proved the inequality for some special values of q, and Hausdorff (1923) proved it in general. More generally the inequality also applies to the Fourier transform of a function on a locally compact group, such as Rn, and in this case Babenko (1961) and Beckner (1975) gave a sharper form of it called the Babenko–Beckner inequality.

We consider the Fourier operator, namely let T be the operator that takes a function on the unit circle and outputs the sequence of its Fourier coefficients

Parseval's theorem shows that T is bounded from to with norm 1. On the other hand, clearly,

so T is bounded from to with norm 1. Therefore we may invoke the Riesz–Thorin theorem to get, for any 1 < p < 2 that T, as an operator from to , is bounded with norm 1, where

In a short formula, this says that

This is the well known Hausdorff–Young inequality. For p > 2 the natural extrapolation of this inequality fails, and the fact that a function belongs to , does not give any additional information on the order of growth of its Fourier series beyond the fact that it is in .

Optimal estimates

The constant involved in the Hausdorff–Young inequality can be made optimal by using careful estimates from the theory of harmonic analysis. If for , the optimal bound is

where is the Hölder conjugate of (Cifuentes 2010)

References

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