On the best constant of Hardy–Sobolev inequalities

We obtain the sharp constant for the Hardy-Sobolev inequality involving the distance to the origin. This inequality is equivalent to a limiting Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality. In three dimensions, in certain cases the sharp constant coincides with the best Sobolev constant.     

Elliptic problems with a Hardy potential and critical growth in the gradient: Non-resonance and blow-up results

In this article we analyze existence and nonexistence of positive solutions to problem

     

On the second best constant in logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on complete Riemannian manifolds

We study the second best constant problem for logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on complete Riemannian manifolds and investigate its relationship with optimal heat kernel bounds and the existence of extremal functions.     

On Hardy inequalities with a remainder term

In this paper we study some improvements of the classical Hardy inequality. We add to the right hand side of the inequality a term that depends on some Lorentz norms of u or of its gradient and we find the best values of the constants for remaining terms. In both cases we show that the problem of finding the optimal value of the constant can be reduced to a spherically symmetric situation. This result is new when the right hand side is a Lorentz norm of the gradient.     

Balls have the worst best Sobolev inequalities. Part II: variants and extensions

We continue our previous study of sharp Sobolev-type inequalities by means of optimal transport, started in (Maggi and Villani J. Geom. Anal. 15(1), 83–121 (2005)). In the present paper, we extend our results in various directions, including Gagliardo–Nirenberg, Faber–Krahn, logarithmic-Sobolev or Moser–Trudinger inequalities with trace terms. We also identify a class of domains for which there is no need for a trace term to cast the Sobolev inequality.     

Improved interpolation inequalities,relative entropy and fast diffusion equations

We consider a family of Gagliardo–Nirenberg–Sobolev interpolation inequalities which interpolate between Sobolev?s inequality and the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, with optimal constants. The difference of the two terms in the interpolation inequalities (written with optimal constant) measures a distance to the manifold of the optimal functions. We give an explicit estimate of the remainder term and establish an improved inequality, with explicit norms and fully detailed constants. Our approach is based on nonlinear evolution equations and improved entropy–entropy production estimates along the associated flow. Optimizing a relative entropy functional with respect to a scaling parameter, or handling properly second moment estimates, turns out to be the central technical issue. This is a new method in the theory of nonlinear evolution equations, which can be interpreted as the best fit of the solution in the asymptotic regime among all asymptotic profiles.     

Sobolev inequalities with remainder terms for sublaplacians and other subelliptic operators

We prove that on bounded domains Ω, the usual Sobolev inequality for sublaplacians on Carnot groups can be improved by adding a remainder term, in striking analogy with the euclidean case. We also show analogous results for subelliptic operators like $$ {\user1{\mathcal{L}}} = \Delta _{x} + |x|^{{2\alpha }} \Delta _{y} ,\,\alpha \gt 0. $$     

Some remarks on elliptic problems with critical growth in the gradient

In this work we analyze existence, nonexistence, multiplicity and regularity of solution to problem

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Blow-up solutions of second-order differential inequalities with a nonlinear memory term

We consider the Cauchy problem for second-order nonlinear ordinary differential inequalities with a nonlinear memory term. We obtain blow-up results under some conditions on the initial data. We also give an application to a semilinear hyperbolic equation in a bounded domain.     

A remark on the Hardy inequalities

This work was supported by a grant from the Minerva foundation.     

Best constants in the exceptional case of Sobolev inequalities

We prove the existence of a second best constant in the exceptional case of Sobolev inequalities on a compact Riemannian n-manifold locally conformally flat.     

Hardy–Sobolev inequalities in half-space and some semilinear elliptic equations with singular coefficients

We study some semilinear elliptic equations with singular coefficients which relate to some Hardy–Sobolev inequalities. We obtain some existence results for these equations and give a theorem for prescribing the Palais–Smale sequence for these equations. Moreover, we find some interesting connections between these equations and some semilinear elliptic equations in hyperbolic space. Using these connections, we obtain many new results for these equations.     

Nonlinear degenerate elliptic equation with Hardy potential and critical parameter

Some embedding inequalities in Hardy–Sobolev spaces with general weight functions were proved, and a positive answer to an open problem raised by Brezis–Vázquez was given. In the weighted Hardy–Sobolev spaces, the existence of nontrivial (many) solutions to the corresponding nonlinear degenerated elliptic equations with Hardy potential and critical parameter under conditions weaker than Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition, was obtained.     

On discrete inequalities of the Poincaré type

The aim of the present paper is to establish some new discrete inequalities of the Poincaré type involving functions ofn independent variables and their first order forward differences. The proofs given here are quite elementary and our results provide new estimates on this type of discrete inequalities.     

Best constants in a borderline case of second-order Moser type inequalities

We study optimal embeddings for the space of functions whose Laplacian Δu   belongs to L¹(Ω)$L^1(\Omega )$, where Ω⊂RN$\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^N$ is a bounded domain. This function space turns out to be strictly larger than the Sobolev space W2,1(Ω)$W^{2,1}(\Omega )$ in which the whole set of second-order derivatives is considered. In particular, in the limiting Sobolev case, when N=2$N=2$, we establish a sharp embedding inequality into the Zygmund space Lexp(Ω)$L_{\mathit{exp}}(\Omega )$. On one hand, this result enables us to improve the Brezis–Merle (Brezis and Merle (1991) [13]) regularity estimate for the Dirichlet problem Δu=f(x)∈L¹(Ω)$\mathrm{\Delta }u=f(x)\in L^1(\Omega )$, u=0$u=0$ on ∂Ω; on the other hand, it represents a borderline case of D.R. Adams' (1988) [1] generalization of Trudinger–Moser type inequalities to the case of higher-order derivatives. Extensions to dimension N?3$N?3$ are also given. Besides, we show how the best constants in the embedding inequalities change under different boundary conditions.     

An interpolation inequality involving Hölder norms

An interpolation inequality of Nirenberg, involving Lebesgue-space norms of functions and their derivatives, is modified, replacing one of the norms by a Hölder norm.