Effect of the boundary conditions in the behavior of the optimal constant of some Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. Application to some doubly critical nonlinear elliptic problems (Q930313)

From the summary: This work deals with the study of the optimal constants of Sobolev and Hardy--Sobolev inequalities with weights and their relations with the behaviour of some mixed Dirichlet--Neumann boundary conditions. More precisely, we analyze the attainability of the Sobolev constant \[ {S_{\gamma}^{2}}(\Omega, \Sigma_{1})=\inf_ {u\in{E_{\Sigma_{1}}^{2,\gamma}}(\Omega), u\not\equiv 0} {\frac{\int_{\Omega}|x|^{-2\gamma}|\nabla u|^{2}\,dx} {{(\int_{\Omega}|x|^{-2^{\ast}\gamma}|u|^{2^{\ast}}\,dx)}^{\frac{2}{2^\ast}}}}, \] and the Hardy--Sobolev constant \[ \Lambda_{N,\gamma}(\Omega, \Sigma_{1})=\inf_{u\in{E_{\Sigma_{1}}^{2,\gamma}}(\Omega), u\not\equiv 0} {\frac{\int_{\Omega}|x|^{-2\gamma}|\nabla u|^{2}\,dx}{\int_{\Omega}{\frac{|u|^{2}}{|x|^{2(\gamma+1)}}}\,dx}} \] where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}\), \(N \geq 3\), is a smooth bounded domain such that \(0 \in \Omega\), \(-\infty < \gamma < {\frac{N-2}{2}}\), \(2^\ast = \frac{2N}{N-2}\), and \(E_{\Sigma_{1}}^{2, \gamma}(\Omega)\) is a Sobolev space that we define later. The relation between the geometry of the domain, the boundary conditions and the attainability of the critical constants is studied. As a direct application, we consider elliptic problems of the form \[ \begin{cases} -{\text{div}}(|x|^{-2\gamma}\nabla u)= \lambda \frac{u^q}{|x|^{2(\gamma + 1)}} + \frac{u^r}{|x|^{(r+1)\gamma}}, \quad u>0 &\text{in } \Omega,\\u =0 &\text{on } \Sigma_1,\\|x|^{-2\gamma}{\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}} =0 &\text{on } \Sigma_2, \end{cases} \] where \(q\) and \(r\) are given real parameters under convenient hypotheses and \(\overline\Sigma_1, \overline\Sigma_2\) is a smooth partition of \(\partial \Omega\).