A weighted Sobolev theorem for spatial and spherical potentials in Lebesgue spaces with variable exponents (Q2455202)

The authors consider the Riesz potential \[ I^\alpha f(x)=\int_{\mathbb R^n}\frac{f(y)}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}}\,dy,\quad 0<\alpha <n, \] in the generalized weighted Lebesgue spaces \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n)\) with variable exponent \(p(x)\) and its spherical analogue \[ (K^\alpha f)(x) = \int_{S_n} \frac{f(\sigma)}{|x-\sigma|^{n-\alpha}}\,d\sigma,\quad x \in S_n, \] in the corresponding spaces on the unit sphere \(S^n\) in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\). For spatial potentials, the \(p\to q\) Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev theorem holds in Lebesgue spaces with variable exponents. The main result of the paper states that under some (natural) conditions for \(p(x)\) and \(q(x)\) the operator \(I^\alpha\) is bounded from \(L^{p(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n,\rho_{\gamma_0,\gamma_\infty})\) to \(L^{q(\cdot)}(\mathbb R^n,\rho_{\mu_0\mu_\infty})\) where \(\rho_{\mu_0\mu_\infty}=|x|^{\gamma_0}(1+|x|)^{\gamma_\infty-\gamma_0}\) and \(\mu_0,\mu_\infty,\gamma_0,\gamma_\infty\) are related to \(p(0),p(\infty),q(0),q(\infty),n,\alpha\) in a specified way.