We establish an analog Hardy inequality with sharp constant involving exponential weight function. The special case of this inequality (for n=2) leads to a direct proof of Onofri inequality on S^2.
We present a new proof of the sphere covering inequality in the spirit of comparison geometry, and as a byproduct we find another sphere covering inequality which can be viewed as the dual of the original one. We also prove sphere covering inequalities on surfaces satisfying general isoperimetric inequalities, and discuss their applications to elliptic equations with exponential nonlinearities in dimension two. The approach in this paper extends, improves, and unifies several inequalities about solutions of elliptic equations with exponential nonlinearities.
We obtain a trace Hardy inequality for the Euclidean space with a bounded cut $Sigmasubsetmathbb R^d$, $d ge 2$. In this novel geometric setting, the Hardy-type inequality non-typically holds also for $d = 2$. The respective Hardy weight is given in terms of the geodesic distance to the boundary of $Sigma$. We provide its applications to the heat equation on $mathbb R^d$ with an insulating cut at $Sigma$ and to the Schrodinger operator with a $delta$-interaction supported on $Sigma$. We also obtain generalizations of this trace Hardy inequality for a class of unbounded cuts.
Wang and Ye conjectured in [22]: Let $Omega$ be a regular, bounded and convex domain in $mathbb{R}^{2}$. There exists a finite constant $C({Omega})>0$ such that [ int_{Omega}e^{frac{4pi u^{2}}{H_{d}(u)}}dxdyle C(Omega),;;forall uin C^{infty}_{0}(Omega), ] where $H_{d}=int_{Omega}| abla u|^{2}dxdy-frac{1}{4}int_{Omega}frac{u^{2}}{d(z,partialOmega)^{2}}dxdy$ and $d(z,partialOmega)=minlimits_{z_{1}inpartialOmega}|z-z_{1}|$.} The main purpose of this paper is to confirm that this conjecture indeed holds for any bounded and convex domain in $mathbb{R}^{2}$ via the Riemann mapping theorem (the smoothness of the boundary of the domain is thus irrelevant). We also give a rearrangement-free argument for the following Trudinger-Moser inequality on the hyperbolic space $mathbb{B}={z=x+iy:|z|=sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}<1}$: [ sup_{|u|_{mathcal{H}}leq 1} int_{mathbb{B}}(e^{4pi u^{2}}-1-4pi u^{2})dV=sup_{|u|_{mathcal{H}}leq 1}int_{mathbb{B}}frac{(e^{4pi u^{2}}-1-4pi u^{2})}{(1-|z|^{2})^{2}}dxdy< infty, ] by using the method employed earlier by Lam and the first author [9, 10], where $mathcal{H}$ denotes the closure of $C^{infty}_{0}(mathbb{B})$ with respect to the norm $$|u|_{mathcal{H}}=int_{mathbb{B}}| abla u|^{2}dxdy-int_{mathbb{B}}frac{u^{2}}{(1-|z|^{2})^{2}}dxdy.$$ Using this strengthened Trudinger-Moser inequality, we also give a simpler proof of the Hardy-Moser-Trudinger inequality obtained by Wang and Ye [22].
We derive a matrix version of Li & Yau--type estimates for positive solutions of semilinear heat equations on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvatures and parallel Ricci tensor, similarly to what R.~Hamilton did in~cite{hamilton7} for the standard heat equation. We then apply these estimates to obtain some Harnack--type inequalities, which give local bounds on the solutions in terms of the geometric quantities involved.
We give a new proof of the almost sharp Moser-Trudinger inequality on compact Riemannian manifolds based on the sharp Moser inequality on Euclidean spaces. In particular we can lower the smoothness requirement of the metric and apply the same approach to higher order Sobolev spaces and manifolds with boundary under several boundary conditions.