A study guide for the l ² decoupling theorem

Abstract

This paper contains a detailed, self contained and more streamlined proof of the l ² decoupling theorem for hypersurfaces from the paper of Bourgain and Demeter in 2015. The authors hope this will serve as a good warm up for the readers interested in understanding the proof of Vinogradov’s mean value theorem from the paper of Bourgain, Demeter and Guth in 2015.

Keywords

Restriction theorems / Multilinear Kakeya inequality / Decouplings

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