An \(L^1\)-type estimate for Riesz potentials (Q520723)

Summary: In this paper we establish new \(L^1\)-type estimates for the classical Riesz potentials of order \(\alpha \in (0, N)\): \[ \|I_\alpha u\|_{L^{N/(N-\alpha)}(\mathbb{R}^N)} \leq C\,\|Ru\|_{L^1(\mathbb{R}^N;\mathbb{R}^N)}. \] This sharpens the result of \textit{E. M. Stein} and \textit{G. Weiss} [Acta Math. 103, 25--62 (1960; Zbl 0097.28501)] on the mapping properties of Riesz potentials on the real Hardy space \(\mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb{R}^N)\) and provides a new family of \(L^1\)-Sobolev inequalities for the Riesz fractional gradient.