Sharp convex Lorentz–Sobolev inequalities

New sharp Lorentz–Sobolev inequalities are obtained by convexifying level sets in Lorentz integrals via the L ^p Minkowski problem. New L ^p isocapacitary and isoperimetric inequalities are proved for Lipschitz star bodies. It is shown that the sharp convex Lorentz–Sobolev inequalities are analytic analogues of isocapacitary and isoperimetric inequalities.     

On the constants for some fractional Gagliardo–Nirenberg and Sobolev inequalities

We consider the inequalities of Gagliardo–Nirenberg and Sobolev in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, formulated in terms of the Laplacian $\Delta$ and of the fractional powers $D^n?{\sqrt{?\Delta }}^n$ with real $n?0$; we review known facts and present novel, complementary results in this area. After illustrating the equivalence between these two inequalities and the relations between the corresponding sharp constants and maximizers, we focus the attention on the ${?}^2$ case where, for all sufficiently regular $f:{\mathbb{R}}^d\to \mathbb{C}$, the norm $6D^{j}f{6}_{{?}^r}$ is bounded in terms of $6f{6}_{{?}^2}$ and $6D^{n}f{6}_{{?}^2}$, for $1∕r=1∕2?(?n?j)∕d$, and suitable values of $j,n,?$ (with $j,n$ possibly noninteger). In the special cases $?=1$ and $?=j∕n+d∕2n$ (i.e., $r=+\infty$), related to previous results of Lieb and Ilyin, the sharp constants and the maximizers can be found explicitly; we point out that the maximizers can be expressed in terms of hypergeometric, Fox and Meijer functions. For the general ${?}^2$ case, we present two kinds of upper bounds on the sharp constants: the first kind is suggested by the literature, the second one is an alternative proposal of ours, often more precise than the first one. We also derive two kinds of lower bounds. Combining all the available upper and lower bounds, the sharp constants are confined to quite narrow intervals. Several examples are given, including the numerical values of the previously mentioned bounds.     

Maximizers for Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities and related non-local problems

In this paper we study the existence of maximizers for two families of interpolation inequalities, namely a generalized Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and a new inequality involving the Riesz energy. Two basic tools in our argument are a generalization of Lieb’s Translation Lemma and a Riesz energy version of the Brézis–Lieb lemma.     

Sharp Hardy–Sobolev inequalities

Let Ω be a smooth bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, $N?3$. We show that Hardy's inequality involving the distance to the boundary, with best constant ($\raisebox{1ex}{$1$}\!\left/ \!\raisebox{-1ex}{$4$}\right.$), may still be improved by adding a multiple of the critical Sobolev norm. To cite this article: S. Filippas et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 339 (2004).     

Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities and non-inequalities: The full story

We investigate the validity of the Gagliardo–Nirenberg type inequality

(1)${6f6}_{W^{s,p}(\mathrm{\Omega })}?{6f6}_{W^{s_1,p_1}(\mathrm{\Omega })}^{\theta }{6f6}_{W^{s_2,p_2}(\mathrm{\Omega })}^{1?\theta },$

with $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^N$. Here, $0\le s_1\le s\le s_2$ are non negative numbers (not necessarily integers), $1\le p_1,p,p_2\le \infty$, and we assume the standard relations

$s=\theta s_1+(1?\theta )s_2,1/p=\theta /p_1+(1?\theta )/p_2\text{ for some }\theta \in (0,1).$

By the seminal contributions of E. Gagliardo and L. Nirenberg, (1) holds when $s_1,s_2,s$ are integers. It turns out that (1) holds for “most” of values of $s_1,\dots ,p_2$, but not for all of them. We present an explicit condition on $s_1,s_2,p_1,p_2$ which allows to decide whether (1) holds or fails.     

Sharp constant of an improved Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and its application

This paper contains three parts. In the first part, we determine the best constant of an improved inequality of Gagliardo–Nirenberg interpolation (Chen, in Czechoslov Math J, in press). In the second part, we use this best constant to establish a sharp criterion for the global existence and blow-up of solutions of the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential

$ i\varphi_t=-\triangle\varphi+|x|^2\varphi-|x|^b|\varphi|^{p-1}\varphi,\quad b > 0,\quad \varphi(x,0) = \varphi_0(x) $

in the critical nonlinearity p = 1 + (4 + 2b)/N. In the third part, we use this best constant to construct an unbounded subset \({\mathcal{S}}\) of Σ and prove that the solutions exist globally in time for \({\varphi_0\in \mathcal{S}}\) and p > 1 + (4 + 2b)/N.

     

Remarks on Gagliardo–Nirenberg type inequality with critical Sobolev space and BMO

We consider the generalized Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality in in the homogeneous Sobolev space with the critical differential order s = n/r, which describes the embedding such as for all q with p ≦ q < ∞, where 1 < p < ∞ and 1 < r < ∞. We establish the optimal growth rate as q → ∞ of this embedding constant. In particular, we realize the limiting end-point r = ∞ as the space of BMO in such a way that with the constant C _n depending only on n. As an application, we make it clear that the well known John–Nirenberg inequality is a consequence of our estimate. Furthermore, it is clarified that the L ^∞-bound is established by means of the BMO-norm and the logarithm of the -norm with s > n/r, which may be regarded as a generalization of the Brezis–Gallouet–Wainger inequality.     

Sobolev and Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequalities

This paper is devoted to improvements of Sobolev and Onofri inequalities. The additional terms involve the dual counterparts, i.e. Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev type inequalities. The Onofri inequality is achieved as a limit case of Sobolev type inequalities. Then we focus our attention on the constants in our improved Sobolev inequalities, that can be estimated by completion of the square methods. Our estimates rely on nonlinear flows and spectral problems based on a linearization around optimal Aubin–Talenti functions.     

Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality for maximal functions measuring smoothness

We prove a Galiardo–Nirenberg type pointwise interpolation inequality for special maximal functions which measure smoothness in the multidimensional case. It turns out that the classsical inequality follows from this one; it is also possible to use naturally BMO norms in the inequality. Bibliography: 6 titles.     

Symmetry results for overdetermined problems on convex domains via Brunn–Minkowski inequalities

We consider some well-posed Dirichlet problems for elliptic equations set on the interior or the exterior of a convex domain (examples include the torsional rigidity, the first Dirichlet eigenvalue, and the electrostatic capacity), and we add an overdetermined Neumann condition which involves the Gauss curvature of the boundary. By using concavity inequalities of Brunn–Minkowski type satisfied by the corresponding variational energies, we prove that the existence of a solution implies the symmetry of the domain. This provides some new characterizations of spheres, in models going from solid mechanics to electrostatics.     

On Gagliardo–Nirenberg Type Inequalities

We present a Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality which bounds Lorentz norms of a function by Sobolev norms and homogeneous Besov quasinorms with negative smoothness. We prove also other versions involving Besov or Triebel–Lizorkin quasinorms. These inequalities can be considered as refinements of Sobolev type embeddings. They can also be applied to obtain Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities in some limiting cases. Our methods are based on estimates of rearrangements in terms of heat kernels. These methods enable us to cover also the case of Sobolev norms with \(p=1\) .     

On certain generalizations of the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and their applications to capacitary estimates and isoperimetric inequalities

We derive the inequality $$\int_\mathbb{R}M(|f'(x)|h(f(x))) dx\leq C(M,h)\int_\mathbb{R}M\left({\sqrt{|f''(x)\tau_h(f(x))|}\cdot h(f(x))}\right)dx$$ with a constant C(M, h) independent of f, where f belongs locally to the Sobolev space ${W^{2,1}(\mathbb{R})}$ and f′ has compact support. Here M is an arbitrary N-function satisfying certain assumptions, h is a given function and ${\tau_h(\cdot)}$ is its given transform independent of M. When M(λ) =  λ ^p and ${h \equiv 1}$ we retrieve the well-known inequality ${\int_\mathbb{R}|f'(x)|^{p}dx \leq (\sqrt{p - 1})^{p}\int_\mathbb{R}(\sqrt{|f''(x) f(x)|})^{p}dx}$ . We apply our inequality to obtain some generalizations of capacitary estimates and isoperimetric inequalities due to Maz’ya (1985).     

Optimal Sobolev estimates for ¯∂ on convex domains of finite type

We prove that solutions for ¯ get 1/M-derivatives more than the data in L^p-Sobolev spaces on a bounded convex domain of finite type M by means of the integral kernel method. Also we prove that the Bergman projection is invariant under the L^p-Sobolev spaces of fractional orders by different methods from McNeal-Stein's. By using these results, we can get L^p-Sobolev estimates of order 1/M for the canonical solution for ¯. The author was supported by grant No. R01-2000-000-00001-0 from the Basic Research Program of the Korea Science&Engineering Foundation.