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Sobolev and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities: duality and fast diffusion

Analysis of PDEs 2012-06-08 v1

Abstract

In the euclidean space, Sobolev and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities can be related by duality. In this paper, we investigate how to relate these inequalities using the flow of a fast diffusion equation in dimension d3d\ge3. The main consequence is an improvement of Sobolev's inequality when d5d\ge5, which involves the various terms of the dual Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality. In dimension d=2d=2, Onofri's inequality plays the role of Sobolev's inequality and can also be related to its dual inequality, the logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, by a super-fast diffusion equation.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1145,
  title  = {Sobolev and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities: duality and fast diffusion},
  author = {Jean Dolbeault},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1145},
  year   = {2012}
}