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A sharp Trudinger-Moser type inequality for unbounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The Trudinger-Moser inequality states that for functions uH01,n(Ω)u \in H_0^{1,n}(\Omega) (ΩRn\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n a bounded domain) with Ωundx1\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^ndx \le 1 one has Ω(eαnunn11)dxcΩ\int_\Omega (e^{\alpha_n|u|^{\frac n{n-1}}}-1)dx \le c |\Omega|, with cc independent of uu. Recently, the second author has shown that for n=2n = 2 the bound cΩc |\Omega| may be replaced by a uniform constant dd independent of Ω\Omega if the Dirichlet norm is replaced by the Sobolev norm, i.e. requiring Ω(un+un)dx1\int_\Omega (|\nabla u|^n + |u|^n)dx \le 1. We extend here this result to arbitrary dimensions n>2n > 2. Also, we prove that for Ω=Rn\Omega = \mathbb R^n the supremum of Rn(eαnunn11)dx\int_{\mathbb R^n} (e^{\alpha_n|u|^{\frac n{n-1}}}-1)dx over all such functions is attained. The proof is based on a blow-up procedure.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609648,
  title  = {A sharp Trudinger-Moser type inequality for unbounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Yuxiang Li and Bernhard Ruf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609648},
  year   = {2007}
}
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