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Extremal functions in Poincare-Sobolev inequalities for functions of bounded variation

Analysis of PDEs 2011-06-28 v2

Abstract

If ΩRn\Omega \subset \R^n is a smooth bounded domain and q(0,nn1)q \in (0, \frac{n}{n-1}) we consider the Poincare-Sobolev inequality c(Ω\absunn1)11nΩ\absDu, c \Bigl(\int_{\Omega} \abs{u}^\frac{n}{n-1}\Bigr)^{1-\frac{1}{n}} \le \int_{\Omega} \abs{Du}, for every uBV(Ω)u \in \mathrm{BV}(\Omega) such that Ω\absuq1u=0\int_{\Omega} \abs{u}^{q-1} u = 0. We show that the sharp constant is achieved. We also consider the same inequality on an nn--dimensional compact Riemannian manifold MM. When n3n \ge 3 and the scalar curvature is positive at some point, then the sharp constant is achieved. In the case n2n \ge 2, we need the maximal scalar curvature to satisfy some strict inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1001.4651,
  title  = {Extremal functions in Poincare-Sobolev inequalities for functions of bounded variation},
  author = {Vincent Bouchez and Jean Van Schaftingen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4651},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, incorporated changes requested by the referee