Weighted Hardy and Rellich inequality on Carnot groups (Q535123)

The authors prove some weighted Hardy and Rellich inequalities on general Carnot groups with weights associated to the norm constructed by Folland's fundamental solution of the Kohn sub-Laplacian. The main results are the following: Let \(\mathbb G\) be a Carnot group with homogeneous dimension \(Q\) and let \(\alpha \in \mathbb R\). (i) (Hardy type inequality) If \(1<p<Q+\alpha\), \(\Phi \in C^{\infty}_0 (\mathbb G \backslash \{ 0\})\), then the following inequality holds \[ \int_{\mathbb G} |\nabla_{\mathbb G}\Phi|^pd^{\alpha}|\nabla_{\mathbb G}d|^{2-p} \geq \left( \frac{Q+\alpha-p}{p}\right)^p \int_{\mathbb G} | \Phi|^pd^{\alpha-p}|\nabla_{\mathbb G}d|^{2}. \] (ii) (Rellich type inequality) If \(1<p<\infty\), \(2-Q<\alpha <\min\{ (p-1)(Q-2), Q-2\}\), then the following inequality holds for \(\Phi \in C^{\infty}_0 (\mathbb G \backslash \{ 0\})\) \[ \begin{multlined} \int_{\mathbb G} d^{\alpha -2+2p} |\nabla_{\mathbb G}d|^{2-2p} |\nabla_{\mathbb G}\Phi|^p \\ \geq \left( \frac{(Q+\alpha-2)[(p-1)(Q-2)-\alpha]}{p^2}\right)^p \int_{\mathbb G} d^{\alpha-2}|\nabla_{\mathbb G}d|^{2}| \Phi|^p. \end{multlined} \]