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Hardy's inequality in a limiting case on general bounded domains

Analysis of PDEs 2018-03-09 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study Hardy's inequality in a limiting case: ΩuNdxCN(Ω)Ωu(x)NxN(logRx)Ndx \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u |^N dx \ge C_N(\Omega) \int_{\Omega} \frac{|u(x)|^N}{|x|^N \left(\log \frac{R}{|x|} \right)^N} dx for functions uW01,N(Ω)u \in W^{1,N}_0(\Omega), where Ω\Omega is a bounded domain in RN\mathbb{R}^N with R=supxΩxR = \sup_{x \in \Omega} |x|. We study the (non-)attainability of the best constant CN(Ω)C_N(\Omega) in several cases. We provide sufficient conditions that assure CN(Ω)>CN(BR)C_N(\Omega) > C_N(B_R) and CN(Ω)C_N(\Omega) is attained, here BRB_R is the NN-dimensional ball with center the origin and radius RR. Also we provide an example of ΩR2\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2 such that C2(Ω)>C2(BR)=1/4C_2(\Omega) > C_2(B_R) = 1/4 and C2(Ω)C_2(\Omega) is not attained.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04018,
  title  = {Hardy's inequality in a limiting case on general bounded domains},
  author = {Jaeyoung Byeon and Futoshi Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04018},
  year   = {2018}
}