Bilinear restriction estimates for surfaces with curvatures of different signs

Abstract

Recently, the sharp L 2 L^2 -bilinear (adjoint) restriction estimates for the cone and the paraboloid were established by Wolff and Tao, respectively. Their results rely on the fact that for the cone and the paraboloid, the nonzero principal curvatures have the same sign. We generalize those bilinear restriction estimates to surfaces with curvatures of different signs.