Bessel pairs and optimal Hardy and Hardy-Rellich inequalities

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DOI10.1007/S00208-010-0510-XzbMATH Open1216.35018arXiv0709.1954OpenAlexW1973863324MaRDI QIDQ617355FDOQ617355

Nassif Ghoussoub, Amir Moradifam

Publication date: 21 January 2011

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give necessary and sufficient conditions on a pair of positive radial functions V and W on a ball B of radius R in R^n,ngeq1, so that the following inequalities hold for all uinC0infty(B): intBV(x)|ablau|2dxgeqintBW(x)u2dx, and intBV(x)|Deltau|2dxgeqintBW(x)|ablau|2dx+(n1)intB(fracV(x)|x|2fracVr(|x|)|x|)|ablau|2dx. This characterization makes a very useful connection between Hardy-type inequalities and the oscillatory behaviour of certain ordinary differential equations, and helps in the identification of a large number of such couples (V, W) - that we call Bessel pairs -as well as the best constants in the corresponding inequalities. This allows us to improve, extend, and unify many results -old and new- about Hardy and Hardy-Rellich type inequalities, such as those obtained by Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, Brezis-Vazquez, Wang-Willem, Adimurthi-Chaudhuri-Ramaswamy, Filippas-Tertikas, Adimurthi-Grossi -Santra, Tertikas-Zographopoulos, and Blanchet-Bonforte-Dolbeault-Grillo-Vasquez.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1954




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