Quasilinearization with regularizing tensor paraproducts
Oluwadamilola Fasina
TL;DR
The paper addresses nonlinear actions $A(f)$ where $f$ has mixed dyadic Hölder regularity by developing continuous and multiscale tensor paraproducts to quasilinearize $A(f)$. The core approach replaces the operator $T: f \mapsto A(f)$ with a tensor paraproduct representation $\Pi^{(t,t')}_{(A',A'')}$, and its multiscale discretization $\Pi^{(N,N')}_{(A',A'')}$, yielding $A(f) = \tilde{A}_{(N,N')}(f) + \Delta_{(N,N')}(A,f)$, where the residual $\Delta_{(N,N')}(A,f)$ has twice the regularity of $f$, i.e., $\Delta_{(N,N')}(A,f) \in \Lambda_{2\alpha}([0,1]^2)$ with $\|\Delta_{(N,N')}(A,f)\|_{\Lambda_{2\alpha}} \le C_A \|f\|_{\Lambda_{\alpha}}$. The construction relies on a telescoping expansion across tensor scales, bilinear interpolation in scale parameters, and a careful bounding of residual terms; the residual regularity is validated via a key lemma linking mixed Hölder regularity to decay of tensor-wavelet coefficients. A computational example demonstrates the practical utility by illustrating how the multiscale paraproduct isolates singular structure while smoothing the nonlinear action. Overall, the framework provides a principled way to separate singular and smooth components in multiscale data and PDE-like settings, with provable regularity gains for the residual.
Abstract
We extend Bony's celebrated work on paraproducts to continous and multiscale \emph{tensor} paraproducts. For $A \in \mathcal{C}^2(\mathbb{R})$ and $f \in Λ_α([0,1]^2, d_d(x,y)^α \times d'_d(x',y')^α)$, we construct an approximation, $\tilde{A}_{(N,N')}(f)$ to $A(f)$, replacing the operator $T: f \to A(f)$ with the continous tensor paraproduct, $Π^{(t,t')}_{(A',A'')}$, and the multiscale tensor paraproduct $Π^{(N,N')}_{(A',A'')}:f \to \tilde{A}_{(N,N')}(f) + Δ_{ (N,N')}(A,f)$. In the multiscale case, we provide estimates on the residual, $Δ_{(N,N')}(A,f)$, and show it has twice the regularity of $f$ such that $Δ_{(N,N')}(A,f) \in Λ_{2 α}([0,1]^2)$ and $\lVert Δ_{(N,N')}(A,f) \rVert_{Λ_{2α}([0,1]^2)} \leq C_A \lVert f \rVert_{Λ_α([0,1]^2)} $. Our theoretical findings are supplemented with a computational example.
