Hardy's inequalities for Sobolev functions (Q1372887)

In this interesting paper, the authors develop a natural approach to estimates for Sobolev functions using fractional maximal operators. While some of the basic underlying estimates are known, the authors develop the subject systematically and decover new results or produce new proofs for known ones. In particular, they give a pointwise interpretation of Hardy's inequality for functions in the Sobolev space \(W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\). Under mild assumptions on \(\Omega\) it is shown, among many other things, that Hardy's inequality holds for a function \(u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega)\) if and only if \(u\in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\).