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Real Analytic Multi-parameter Singular Radon Transforms: necessity of the Stein-Street condition

We study operators of the form $$ Tf(x)= ψ(x) \int f(γ_t(x))K(t)\,dt, $$ where $γ_t(x)$ is a real analytic function of $(t,x)$ mapping from a neighborhood of $(0,0)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R}^n$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying $γ_0(x)\equiv x$, $ψ(x) \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, and $K(t)$ is a "multi-parameter singular kernel" with compact support in $\mathbb{R}^N$; for example when $K(t)$ is a product singular kernel. The celebrated work of Christ, Nagel, Stein, and Wainger studied such operators with smooth $γ_t(x)$, in the single-parameter case when $K(t)$ is a Calderón-Zygmund kernel. Street and Stein generalized their work to the multi-parameter case, and gave sufficient conditions for the $L^p$-boundedness of such operators. This paper shows that when $γ_t(x)$ is real analytic, the sufficient conditions of Street and Stein are also necessary for the $L^p$-boundedness of $T$, for all such kernels $K$.