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We prove a characterization of the Sobolev spaces $H^\alpha$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$, where the smoothness index $\alpha$ is any positive real number and $d\geq 2$. This characterization does not use differentiation and it is…

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Let $\Omega$ be a smooth oriented bounded domain in $\mathbb R^4$, $H_0^2(\Omega)$ be the Sobolev space, and $\lambda_1(\Omega)= \inf \{\|\Delta u\|_2^2 : u\in H_0^2(\Omega), \|u\|_2 =1\}$ be the first eigenvalue of the bi-Laplacian…

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We classify local minimizers of $\int\sigma_2+\oint H_2$ among all conformally flat metrics in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-ball, $4\leq n\leq 5$, for which the boundary has unit volume, subject to an ellipticity assumption. We also classify local…

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In this work, we obtain an existence of nontrivial solutions to a minimization problem involving a fractional Hardy-Sobolev type inequality in the case of inner singularity. Precisely, for $\lambda>0$ we analyze the attainability of the…

We address the question of attainability of the best constant in the following Hardy-Sobolev inequality on a smooth domain $\Omega$ of \mathbb{R}^n: $$ \mu_s (\Omega) := \inf \{\int_{\Omega}| \nabla u|^2 dx; u \in {H_{1,0}^2(\Omega)}…

A Sobolev type embedding for radially symmetric functions on the unit ball $B$ in $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geq 3$, into the variable exponent Lebesgue space $L_{2^\star + |x|^\alpha} (B)$, $2^\star = 2n/(n-2)$, $\alpha>0$, is known due to J.M. do…

The Trudinger-Moser inequality states that for functions $u \in H_0^{1,n}(\Omega)$ ($\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ a bounded domain) with $\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^ndx \le 1$ one has $\int_\Omega (e^{\alpha_n|u|^{\frac n{n-1}}}-1)dx \le c…

We prove a stability inequality associated to the reverse Sobolev inequality on the sphere $\mathbb S^n$, for the full admissible parameter range $s - \frac{n}{2} \in (0,1) \cup (1,2)$. To implement the classical proof of Bianchi and…

Let $N\geq 5$, $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, ${2^*}=\frac{2N}{N-2}$, $a>0$, $S=\inf\left\{\left. \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}|\nabla u|^2\,\right|\,u\in L^{2^*}(\mathbb{R}^{N}), \nabla u\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^{N}),…

The best constant of the Sobolev inequality in the whole space is attained by the Aubin-Talenti function; however, this does not happen in bounded domains because the break in dilation invariance. In this paper, we investigate a new scale…

We find a class of optimal Sobolev inequalities $$\Big(\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|\nabla u|^2\, dx\Big)^{\frac{N}{N-2}}\geq C_{N,G}\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}G(u)\, dx, \quad u\in\mathcal{D}^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^N), N\geq 3,$$ where the nonlinear function…

We prove a sharp Onofri-type inequality and non-existence of extremals for a Moser-Tudinger functional on the sphere in the presence of potentials having positive order singularities. We also investigate the existence of critical points and…

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Let $\Omega$ be a cone in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with $n\ge 2$. For every fixed $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ we find the best constant in the Rellich inequality $\int_{\Omega}|x|^{\alpha}|\Delta u|^{2}dx\ge C\int_{\Omega}|x|^{\alpha-4}|u|^{2}dx$ for…