Achievability of a supremum for the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality with supercritical exponent (Q2010457)

Let \(B \subset \mathbb{R}^N\) (\(N\geq 3)\)) be the unit ball, \(\mu \in (0,N)\) and let \(2^*_\mu = (2N-\mu)/(N -2)\) be the critical exponent for the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality. In this paper, the authors prove that the following supremum, corresponding to a Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev type inequality with variable exponents, is attained: \[ \sup\left\{ \int_B\int_B \frac{|u(y)|^{p(|y|)}|u(x)|^{p(|x|)}}{|x-y|^\mu}dxdy, \ u\in H^1_{0,\mathrm{rad}}(B), \ \|\nabla u\|_{L^2(B)}=1 \right\}, \] where \(p(r)=2^*_\mu +r^t\) with \(t\in (0, \min\{N/2-\mu/4, N-2\})\).