A critical problem on the Hardy-Sobolev inequality in boundary singularity case (Q2011504)

The author deals with the Hardy-Sobolev inequality for the Neumann problem \[ \mu_{s,\lambda}^N(\varOmega) \left(\int_\varOmega \frac{|u|^{2^*(s)}}{|x|^s}\,dx\right)^{2/2^*(s)}\leq \int_\varOmega (|\nabla u|^2+\lambda u^2)\,dx, \] where \(N\geq 3,\;\varOmega\subset \mathbb{R}^N,\;0<s<2,\;2^*(s)=2(N-2s)/(N-2),\;\lambda >0\) and \(\mu_{s,\lambda}^N(\varOmega)\) is the largest positive constant defined by \[ \mu_{s,\lambda}^N(\varOmega)=\inf_{u\in H^1(\varOmega)\setminus\{0\}}\frac {\int_\varOmega (|\nabla u|^2+\lambda u^2)\,dx} {\big(\int_\varOmega \frac{|u|^{2^*(s)}}{|x|^s}\,dx\big)^{2/2^*(s)}}. \] The main results contain conditions for the achievement of this constant for the cases \(N=4\) and \(N\geq 4\).