Extremal functions in some interpolation inequalities: Symmetry, symmetry breaking and estimates of the best constants

zbMath1244.26030arXiv1009.5619MaRDI QIDQ2884725

Jean Dolbeault, Maria J. Esteban

Publication date: 18 May 2012

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5619

zbMATH Keywords

existence; linearization; logarithmic Sobolev inequality; extremal functions; compactness; symmetry breaking; optimal constants; radial symmetry; Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality; logarithmic Hardy inequality; Emden-Fowler transformation; Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46E35: Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems

26D10: Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators