Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

1. The Fourier transform is the single most important operator in Mathematics, leading the pack in both theoretical and practical applications. Despite centuries of scrutiny, there are still fundamental questions about it that remain open. Weighted Lebesgue spaces are collections of functions whose ""size"" is given by a certain integral formula. An operator that maps functions to functions is said to be bounded provided the operation does not increase this size by more than a fixed factor. I propose to work on the following problem: Characterize those weights u and v such that the Fourier Transform is bounded as a map from the Lebesgue space with index p and weight u to the Lebesgue space with index q and weight v. 2. Quasiconcave functions are functions satisfying two monotonicity conditions - they are increasing when multiplied by one fixed function and are decreasing when multiplied by another. Understanding how this class of functions relates to operators and norms is important for work in Lebesgue and the related Lorentz spaces. The understanding previously achieved for the class of decreasing functions has been of substantial benefit in past work and we expect similar benefits from this study. 3. Angular equivalence is a new means of relating the way different measures of the size of objects (usually functions) correspond to different measures of the angles between these same objects. We have already proved basic properties of angular equivalence. Now it is time to expand our understanding of this new concept and relate it to established mathematics.