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Spherical reflection positivity and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality

Functional Analysis 2010-03-30 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We introduce the concept of spherical (as distinguished from planar) reflection positivity and use it to obtain a new proof of the sharp constants in certain cases of the HLS and the logarithmic HLS inequality. Our proofs relies on an extension of a work by Li and Zhu which characterizes the minimizing functions of the type (1+x2)p(1+|x|^2)^{-p}.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5248,
  title  = {Spherical reflection positivity and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Elliott H. Lieb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5248},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

15 pages; contribution to the proceedings of the workshop at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (October/November 2009)