Lower bounds for the constants of the Hardy-Littlewood inequalities (Q744110)

The multilinear Hardy-Littlewood inequalities assures that, given a positive integer \(m\) and \(p \in [2m,\infty]\), there exists a constant \(C_{m,p}^\mathbb{K} \geq 1\) (here \(\mathbb{K}\) denotes the field of real or complex scalars) such that, for all positive integers \(N\) and for every bounded \(m\)-linear form \(T : \ell_p^N \times \dots \times \ell_p^N \to \mathbb{K}\), \[ \left(\sum_{i_1,\dots,i_m=1}^N \left|T(e_{i_1},\dots,e_{i_m})\right|^\frac{2mp}{mp+p-2m} \right)^\frac{mp+p-2m}{2mp} \leq C_{m,p}^\mathbb{K} \|T\|. \] The case \(p=\infty\) is the well-known Bohnenblust-Hille inequality [\textit{H. F. Bohnenblust} and \textit{E. Hille}, Ann. Math. (2) 32, 600--622 (1931; Zbl 0001.26901)]. The bilinear case was proved by \textit{G. H. Hardy} and \textit{J. E. Littlewood} [Q. J. Math., Oxf. Ser. 5, 241--254 (1934; Zbl 0010.36101)] and \textit{T. Praciano-Pereira} extended the result for multilinear forms [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 81, 561--568 (1981; Zbl 0497.46007)]. The precise estimates of the constants of the Hardy-Littlewood inequalities are unknown. In this note, the authors provide nontrivial lower bounds for these inequalities.