We study the Rellich inequalities in the framework of equalities. We present equalities which imply the Rellich inequalities by dropping remainders. This provides a simple and direct understanding of the Rellich inequalities as well as the nonexistence of nontrivial extremisers.
This paper is a companion to our prior paper arXiv:0705.4619 on the `Small Ball Inequality in All Dimensions. In it, we address a more restrictive inequality, and obtain a non-trivial, explicit bound, using a single essential estimate from our prior paper. The prior bound was not explicit and much more involved.
We discuss the concept of inner function in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with an orthogonal basis of monomials and examine connections between inner functions and optimal polynomial approximants to $1/f$, where $f$ is a function in the space. We revisit some classical examples from this perspective, and show how a construction of Shapiro and Shields can be modified to produce inner functions.
Let h_R denote an L ^{infty} normalized Haar function adapted to a dyadic rectangle R contained in the unit cube in dimension d. We establish a non-trivial lower bound on the L^{infty} norm of the `hyperbolic sums $$ sum _{|R|=2 ^{-n}} alpha(R) h_R (x) $$ The lower bound is non-trivial in that we improve the average case bound by n^{eta} for some positive eta, a function of dimension d. As far as the authors know, this is the first result of this type in dimension 4 and higher. This question is related to Conjectures in (1) Irregularity of Distributions, (2) Approximation Theory and (3) Probability Theory. The method of proof of this paper gives new results on these conjectures in all dimensions 4 and higher. This paper builds upon prior work of Jozef Beck, from 1989, and first two authors from 2006. These results were of the same nature, but only in dimension 3.
The principal aim of this paper is to extend Birmans sequence of integral inequalities originally obtained in 1961, and containing Hardys and Rellichs inequality as special cases, to a sequence of inequalities that incorporates power weights on either side and logarithmic refinements on the right-hand side of the inequality as well. Our new technique of proof for this sequence of inequalities relies on a combination of transforms originally due to Hartman and Muller-Pfeiffer. The results obtained considerably improve on prior results in the literature.
One may define a trilinear convolution form on the sphere involving two functions on the sphere and a monotonic function on the interval $[-1,1]$. A symmetrization inequality of Baernstein and Taylor states that this form is maximized when the two functions on the sphere are replaced with their nondecreasing symmetric rearrangements. In the case of indicator functions, we show that under natural hypotheses, the symmetric rearrangements are the only maximizers up to symmetry by establishing a sharpened inequality.