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An improved one-dimensional Hardy inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2022-04-05 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

We prove a one-dimensional Hardy inequality on the halfline with sharp constant, which improves the classical form of this inequality. As a consequence of this new inequality we can rederive known doubly weighted Hardy inequalities. Our motivation comes from the theory of Schr\"odinger operators and we explain the use of Hardy inequalities in that context.

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@article{arxiv.2204.00877,
  title  = {An improved one-dimensional Hardy inequality},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Ari Laptev and Timo Weidl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00877},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

19 pages; Dedicated, in admiration, to V. Maz'ya on the occasion of his 85th birthday

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