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Reversed inequality of the Herbst-type and the related Euler-Lagrange system

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-07 v1

Abstract

In 2008, Beckner (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136(5), 1871-1885) proved two inequalities of the Herbst type, which are the critical forms of the Stein-Weiss inequality. In 2018, Chen et al. (Tran. Amer. Math. Soc. 370(12), 8429-8450) established the reversed Stein-Weiss inequality. In this paper, we are concerned about its critical case and give a reversed Herbst inequality. Namely, RnRnxyα/qnyα/qg(x)h(y)dxdyCn,α,p,qgLq(Rn)hLp(Rn) \left|\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|x-y|^{\alpha/q'-n}|y|^{\alpha/q'}g(x)h(y)dxdy\right| \geq C_{n,\alpha,p,q'}\|g\|_{L^{q'}(\mathbb{R}^n)}\|h\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)} holds for any nonnegative functions gLq(Rn)g \in L^{q'}(\mathbb{R}^n) and hLp(Rn)h \in L^p(\mathbb{R}^n), where n1n\geq 1, p,q(0,1)p, q' \in (0,1), α>n\alpha>n satisfying 1/p+1/q2α/(qn)=1{1}/{p}+{1}/{q'}-{2\alpha}/(q'n)=1. Such an inequality is not covered by the reversed Stein-Weiss inequality. Meanwhile, we prove the existence of extremal functions of this inequality. Finally, we study the Euler-Lagrange system satisfied by those extremal functions {u(x)=Rnxyβnvp2(y)yβdy,v(x)=Rnxyβnup1(y)xβdy. \left\{\begin{matrix} u(x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|x-y|^{\beta-n}v^{-p_2}(y)|y|^{\beta}dy, v(x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|x-y|^{\beta-n}u^{-p_1}(y)|x|^{\beta}dy. \end{matrix}\right. We obtain necessary conditions for the existence of positive solutions, and investigate their integrability and asymptotic behavior when x0|x| \to 0 and x|x| \to \infty.

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@article{arxiv.2607.05928,
  title  = {Reversed inequality of the Herbst-type and the related Euler-Lagrange system},
  author = {Tiantian Zhou and Yutian Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.05928},
  year   = {2026}
}