Radial symmetry and symmetry breaking for some interpolation inequalities

DOI10.1007/S00526-011-0394-YMaRDI QIDQ645002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean Dolbeault, Maria J. Esteban, Achilles Tertikas, G. Tarantello

Publication date 8 November 2011

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2138

zbMATH Keywords

Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalitiesinterpolation inequalitiesweighted logarithmic Hardy inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Variational inequalities (49J40)

Abstract: We analyze the radial symmetry of extremals for a class of interpolation inequalities known as Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities, and for a class of weighted logarithmic Hardy inequalities which appear as limiting cases of the first ones. In both classes we show that there exists a continuous surface that splits the set of admissible parameters into a region where extremals are symmetric and a region where symmetry breaking occurs. In previous results, the symmetry breaking region was identified by showing the linear instability of the radial extremals. Here we prove that symmetry can be broken even within the set of parameters where radial extremals correspond to local minima for the variational problem associated with the inequality. For interpolation inequalities, such a symmetry breaking phenomenon is entirely new.

Review text

The symmetric properties of extremals for a class of interpolation inequalities known as Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities are established. Furthermore, the class of logarithmic Hardy type inequalities obtained as limiting cases of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities are derived. For these classes of inequalities, it was shown that there exists a continuous surface that splits the set of admissible parameters into a region where extremals are symmetric and a region where symmetric breaking occurs. It was also proved that symmetry can be broken even within the set of parameters where radial extremals correspond to local minima for the variational problems associated with the inequality. In addition, it was shown that for interpolation inequalities such a symmetry breaking phenomenon is an entirely new concept. Finally, it was also shown that the weighted logarithmic Hardy inequality when compared with the logarithm Sobolev inequality gives a better information about the symmetry breaking properties of the extremals.

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