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We establish a supercritical Trudinger-Moser type inequality for the $k$-Hessian operator on the space of the $k$-admissible radially symmetric functions $\Phi^{k}_{0,\mathrm{rad}}(B)$, where $B$ is the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$. We…

Our main goal is to investigate supercritical Hardy-Sobolev type inequalities with a logarithmic term and their corresponding variational problem. We prove the existence of extremal functions for the associated variational problem, despite…

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Critical Sobolev-type inequality for a class of weighted Sobolev spaces on the entire space is established. We also investigate the existence of extremal function for the associated variational problem. As an application, we prove the…

In this article, we establish the existence of an extremal function for the k-th order critical Hardy-Sobolev-Maz'ya (HSM) inequalities on the upper half space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{+}$ when $k\ge 2$ and $n\geq 2k+2$:…

In this article, we prove the existence of extremal functions in higher-order affine Sobolev inequalities. Proofs rely on concentration-compactness methods in spaces of integer or fractional regularity. The tools we use, available in spaces…

We study the Sobolev inequality and the existence of its extremal functions in the setting of homogeneous H\"{o}rmander vector fields. A principal result establishes a mutual inclusion between the set of volume growth rates of subunit balls…

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of radial extremal functions to an inequality involving Hardy potential and critical Sobolev exponent. Based on the asymptotic behavior at the origin and the infinity, we shall deduce a strict…

The $k$-Hessian operator $\sigma_k$ is the $k$-th elementary symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Hessian. It is known that the $k$-Hessian equation $\sigma_k(D^2u)=f$ with Dirichlet boundary condition $u=0$ is variational; indeed,…

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A typical quandary in geometric functions theory is to study a functional composed of amalgamations of the coefficients of the pristine function. Conventionally, there is a parameter over which the extremal value of the functional is…

In this paper we deduce a formula for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$ on radially symmetric functions useful for some applications. We give a criterion of subharmonicity associated with $(-\Delta)^{s}$, and apply it to a…

In this paper, we study the existence of extremal functions of the discrete Sobolev inequality and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality on lattice graphs. We introduce the discrete Concentration-Compactness principle, and prove the existence…

We study the shape of solutions to some variational problems in Sobolev spaces with weights that are powers of |x|. In particular, we detect situations when the extremal functions lack symmetry properties such as radial symmetry and…

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In this paper we prove the existence of extremal functions for the Adams-Moser-Trudinger inequality on the Sobolev space $H^{m}(\Omega)$, where $\Omega$ is any bounded, smooth, open subset of $\mathbb{R}^{2m}$, $m\ge 1$. Moreover, we extend…

We obtain the sharp asymptotic behavior at infinity of extremal functions for the fractional critical Sobolev embedding.

We study extremal functions for a family of Poincar\'e-Sobolev-type inequalities. These functions minimize, for subcritical or critical $p\geq 2$, the quotient ${\|\nabla u\|_2}/{\|u\|_p}$ among all $u \in H^1(B)\setminus\{0\}$ with…

In this paper we classify all positive extremal functions to a sharp weighted Sobolev inequality on the upper half space, which involves divergent operators with degeneracy on the boundary. As an application of the results, we can derive a…