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Inversion positivity and the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality

Functional Analysis 2011-09-05 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We give a new proof of certain cases of the sharp HLS inequality. Instead of symmetric decreasing rearrangement it uses the reflection positivity of inversions in spheres. In doing this we extend a characterization of the minimizing functions due to Li and Zhu.

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@article{arxiv.0904.4275,
  title  = {Inversion positivity and the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Elliott H. Lieb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.4275},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

15 pages; references added and minor changes

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