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Fractional Hardy inequalities and visibility of the boundary

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2015-12-23 v2

Abstract

We prove fractional order Hardy inequalities on open sets under a combined fatness and visibility condition on the boundary. We demonstrate by counterexamples that fatness conditions alone are not sufficient for such Hardy inequalities to hold. In addition, we give a short exposition of various fatness conditions related to our main result, and apply fractional Hardy inequalities in connection to the boundedness of extension operators for fractional Sobolev spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1305.4616,
  title  = {Fractional Hardy inequalities and visibility of the boundary},
  author = {Lizaveta Ihnatsyeva and Juha Lehrbäck and Heli Tuominen and Antti V. Vähäkangas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4616},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

30 pages, 3 figures. Minor revisions to the previous version. To be published in Studia Math