Fourier Integral Operators

Preface.- 0. Introduction.- 1. Preliminaries.- 1.1 Distribution densities on manifolds.- 1.2 The method of stationary phase.- 1.3 The wave front set of a distribution.- 2. Local Theory of Fourier Integrals.- 2.1 Symbols.- 2.2 Distributions defined by oscillatory integrals.- 2.3 Oscillatory integrals with nondegenerate phase functions.- 2.4 Fourier integral operators (local theory).- 2.5 Pseudodifferential operators in Rn.- 3. Symplectic Differential Geometry.- 3.1 Vector fields.- 3.2 Differential forms.- 3.3 The canonical 1- and 2-form T* (X).- 3.4 Symplectic vector spaces.- 3.5 Symplectic differential geometry.- 3.6 Lagrangian manifolds.- 3.7 Conic Lagrangian manifolds.- 3.8 Classical mechanics and variational calculus.- 4. Global Theory of Fourier Integral Operators.- 4.1 Invariant definition of the principal symbol.- 4.2 Global theory of Fourier integral operators.- 4.3 Products with vanishing principal symbol.- 4.4 L2-continuity.- 5. Applications.- 5.1 The Cauchy problem for strictly hyperbolic differential operators with C-infinity coefficients.- 5.2 Oscillatory asymptotic solutions. Caustics.- References.