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Improved Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality under constraints

Differential Geometry 2020-06-29 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

A classical result of Aubin states that the constant in Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality on S2\mathbb{S}^{2} can be imporved for furnctions with zero first order moments of the area element. We generalize it to higher order moments case. These new inequalities bear similarity to a sequence of Lebedev-Milin type inequalities on S1\mathbb{S}^{1} coming from the work of Grenander-Szego on Toeplitz determinants (as pointed out by Widom). We also discuss the related sharp inequality by a perturbation method.

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@article{arxiv.1909.00431,
  title  = {Improved Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality under constraints},
  author = {Sun-Yung A. Chang and Fengbo Hang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00431},
  year   = {2020}
}

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New references added, to appear in Comm Pure Appl Math

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