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Stability estimates for critical points of a nonlocal Sobolev-type inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2025-02-06 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study the stability of the following nonlocal Soblev-type inequality \begin{equation*} C_{HLS}\big(\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\big(|x|^{-\mu} \ast u^{p}\big)u^{p} dx\big)^{\frac{1}{p}}\leq\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|\nabla u|^2 dx , \quad \forall~u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^n), \end{equation*} which is induced by the classical Sobolev inequality and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, where p=2nμn2p=\frac{2n-\mu}{n-2}, n3n\geq3 and μ(0,n)\mu\in(0,n), is energy-critical exponent and CHLSC_{HLS} is the best constant depending on nn and μ\mu. Up to translation and scaling, the best constant of the nonlocal Soblev inequality can be achieved by a unique family of positive and radially symmetric extremal function W(x)W(x) that satisfies, up to a suitable scaling, the classical critical Hartree equation \begin{equation*} \Delta u+(|x|^{-\mu}\ast u^{p})u^{p-1}=0 \quad \mbox{in}\quad \mathbb{R}^n. \end{equation*} Recently, Piccione, Yang and Zhao in \cite{p-y-z24} established a nonlocal version of Struwe's profile decomposition and they only proved the nonlocal version of the quantitative stability for the one bubble case without dimension restriction and the multiple bubbles case κ2\kappa\geq2 if dimension 3n<6μ3\leq n<6-\mu and μ(0,n)\mu\in(0,n) with μ(0,4]\mu\in(0,4] in Ciraolo-Figalli-Maggi \cite{CFM18} and Figalli-Glaudo \cite{FG20}. We establish the quantitative stability estimates for critical point of the nonlocal Soblev inequality for n6μn\geq6-\mu and μ(0,4)\mu\in(0,4), which is an extension of the recent works by Deng-Sun-Wei in \cite{DSW21} for the classical Sobolev inequality.

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@article{arxiv.2501.01927,
  title  = {Stability estimates for critical points of a nonlocal Sobolev-type inequality},
  author = {Minbo Yang and Shunneng Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01927},
  year   = {2025}
}