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A sharp trace Adams' inequality in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ and Existence of the extremals

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-18 v1

Abstract

Let ΩR4\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{4} be a bounded domain with smooth boundary Ω\partial\Omega. In this paper, we establish the following sharp form of the trace Adams' inequality in W2,2(Ω)W^{2,2}(\Omega) with zero mean value and zero Neumann boundary condition: \begin{equation*} S({\alpha})=\underset{\int_{\Omega}udx=0,\frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}|_{\partial\Omega}=0,\Vert\Delta u\Vert_{2}\leq{1}}{\underset {u\in{W^{2,2}(\Omega)\setminus\{0\}}}{\sup}}\int_{\partial \Omega} e^{\alpha u^{2}}d\sigma<\infty \end{equation*} holds if and only if α12π2 \alpha\leq12\pi^2. Moreover, we prove a classification theorem for the solutions of a class of nonlinear boundary value problem of bi-harmonic equations on the half space R+4\mathbb{R}^4_{+}. With this classification result, we can show that S(12π2)S({12\pi^2}) is attained by using the blow-up analysis and capacitary estimate. As an application, we prove a sharp trace Adams-Onofri type inequality in general four dimensional bounded domains with smooth boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2308.16347,
  title  = {A sharp trace Adams' inequality in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ and Existence of the extremals},
  author = {Lu Chen and Guozhen Lu and Maochun Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.16347},
  year   = {2026}
}

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