Problems / analysis
analysis / Harmonic analysis; directional singular integrals
Stein's conjecture on the Hilbert transform along Lipschitz vector fields
Theorem 1.1: there are absolute a∈(0,1/2) and C such that every Lipschitz unit field v on R2 with Lip(v)≤1 satisfies sup0<ϵ<a∥Hv,aϵf∥2≤C∥f∥2; the principal value is L2 bounded and weak-(2,2). By scaling this holds at outer length a/Lip(v). Fields may depend on both coordinates. It does not give Lp bounds for p=2, does not address the maximal (Zygmund) averaging operator, and does not give estimates at arbitrary outer lengths for varying fields.