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Is the Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity a true critical nonlinearity?

Analysis of PDEs 2010-07-19 v2

Abstract

While the critical nonlinearity u2\int |u|^{2^*} for the Sobolev space H1H^1 in dimension N>2N>2 lacks weak continuity at any point, Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity e4πu2\int e^{4\pi u^2} in dimension N=2N=2 is weakly continuous at any point except zero. In the former case the lack of weak continuity can be attributed to invariance with respect to actions of translations and dilations. The Sobolev space H01H_0^1 of the unit disk DR2\mathbb D\subset\R^2 possesses transformations analogous to translations (M\"obius transformations) and nonlinear dilations rrsr\mapsto r^s. We present improvements of the Trudinger-Moser inequality with sharper nonlinearities sharper than e4πu2\int e^{4\pi u^2}, that lack weak continuity at any point and possess (separately), translation and dilation invariance. We show, however, that no nonlinearity of the form F(x,u(x))dx\int F(|x|,u(x))\mathrm{d}x is both dilation- and M\"obius shift-invariant. The paper also gives a new, very short proof of the conformal-invariant Trudinger-Moser inequality obtained recently by Mancini and Sandeep and of a sharper version of Onofri-type inequality of Beckner.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1006.2724,
  title  = {Is the Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity a true critical nonlinearity?},
  author = {Kyril Tintarev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2724},
  year   = {2010}
}
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