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Free Energies and the Reversed HLS Inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2018-03-19 v1

Abstract

We prove reversed Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities by carefully studying the natural associated free energies with direct methods of calculus of variations. Tightness is obtained by a dyadic argument, which quantifies the relative strength of the entropy functional versus the interaction energy. The existence of optimizers is shown in the class of \prob\prob. With respect to their regularity, we study conditions for optimizers to be bounded functions. In a related model, we show the condensation phenomena, which suggests that optimizers are not in general regular.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06232,
  title  = {Free Energies and the Reversed HLS Inequality},
  author = {J. A. Carrillo and M. G. Delgadino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06232},
  year   = {2018}
}