Some new and short proofs for a class of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type inequalities (Q2382703)

This paper provides a short argument for the following variant of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality: For all \(a,b\in\mathbb{R}\) and \(u\in C_{0}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash\{0\}),\) \[ C(a,b)\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{| u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{a+b+1}}\,dx\leq\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{| u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{2a}}\,dx\right) ^{1/2}\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{| \nabla u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{2b}}\,dx\right) ^{1/2}, \] where the constant \(C(a,b)=| N-(a+b+1)| /2\) is sharp. Moreover, if \(a=b+1\neq N/2,\) then the best constant \(C(a,b)\) is never achieved in the sense that \[ \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{| \nabla u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{2b}}\,dx/\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\frac{| u| ^{2} }{| x| ^{2b+2}}\,dx>\left( \frac{N-2b-2}{2}\right) ^{2} \] for all \(u\neq0\) in the completion \(H_{a,b}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N}),\) of \(C_{0}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash\{0\})\) with respect to the weighted Sobolev norm, \[ \| u\| _{H_{a,b}^{1}}=\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}\left[ \frac{| u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{2a}} +\frac{| \nabla u| ^{2}}{| x| ^{2b} }\right] \,dx\right) ^{1/2}. \] The space \(H_{a,b}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})\) could be useful in studying solvability of problems involving singular PDEs.