A weighted Moser-Trudinger inequality and its relation to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities in two space dimensions
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Publication:6479046
DOI10.2422/2036-2145.2008.2.05arXivmath/0703873MaRDI QIDQ6479046
Maria J. Esteban, Grabriella Tarantello, Jean Dolbeault
Publication date: 29 March 2007
Abstract: We first prove a weighted inequality of Moser-Trudinger type depending on a parameter, in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. The inequality holds for radial functions if the parameter is larger than -1. Without symmetry assumption, it holds if and only if the parameter is in the interval (-1,0]. The inequality gives us some insight on the symmetry breaking phenomenon for the extremal functions of the Hardy-Sobolev inequality, as established by Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, in two space dimensions. In fact, for suitable sets of parameters (asymptotically sharp) we prove symmetry or symmetry breaking by means of a blow-up method. In this way, the weighted Moser-Trudinger inequality appears as a limit case of the Hardy-Sobolev inequality.
Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35) Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10)
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