%0 Journal Article %T A sharp trilinear inequality related to Fourier restriction on the circle %A Emanuel Carneiro %A Damiano Foschi %A Diogo Oliveira e Silva %A Christoph Thiele %J Mathematics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X In this paper we prove a sharp trilinear inequality which is motivated by a program to obtain the sharp form of the $L^2 - L^6$ Tomas-Stein adjoint restriction inequality on the circle. Our method uses intricate estimates for integrals of sixfold products of Bessel functions developed in a companion paper. We also establish that constants are local extremizers of the Tomas-Stein adjoint restriction inequality as well as of another inequality appearing in the program. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06674v1