Sharp weighted-norm inequalities for functions with compact support in \(\mathbb R^N\setminus \{0\}\) (Q2378187)

In this paper the authors prove that the best constants \(C(N,a,b)\) in the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality \[ C^2(N,a,b)\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{u^2}{|x|^{a+b+1}}\,dx\right)^2\leq \left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{u^2}{|x|^{2a}}\,dx\right) \left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{|\nabla u|^2}{|x|^{2b}}\,dx\right) \] is the infimum of the energy functional \[ E(u)=\frac{\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{u^2}{|x|^{2a}}\,dx\right)^{1/2} \left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{|\nabla u|^2}{|x|^{2b}}\,dx\right)^{1/2}}{\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{u^2}{|x|^{a+b+1}}\,dx}. \] Also the existence of infinitely many other stationary points of \(E(u)\) at discrete energy levels, higher that \(C(N,a,b),\) is proved by studying a corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation.