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Asymptotically sharp Hardy-Rellich inequalities on lattices

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-25 v1

Abstract

We determine the sharp asymptotic behavior of the optimal constants in the discrete Hardy-Rellich inequalities on the lattice Zd\mathbb{Z}^d. For every fixed integer m1m\ge 1, let Cm,d{\mathcal C}_{m,d} be the best constant in the mm-th order Hardy-Rellich inequality. We prove that limdCm,ddm=2m.\lim_{d\to\infty}\frac{\mathcal C_{m,d}}{d^m}=2^m. Our approach combines a Fourier reduction to weighted inequalities with the flat torus and general weighted Hardy-Rellich identities of first and second order. A key novelty is the use of probabilistic concentration estimates, specifically Hoeffding's inequality and entropy methods, to handle estimates involving the anisotropic weight ωγ\omega^\gamma (γ1)(\gamma\geq 1) where ω(x)=j=1d(sinxj2)2\omega(x)=\sum_{j=1}^{d} \Big(\sin\frac{x_j}{2}\Big)^2 in a dimension-uniform manner. These tools yield asymptotically sharp weighted estimates on the torus, from which the lattice inequalities follow by iteration.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.23057,
  title  = {Asymptotically sharp Hardy-Rellich inequalities on lattices},
  author = {Xia Huang and Dong Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23057},
  year   = {2026}
}