8th Taiwan-Philippine Symposium on Analysis

Hardy-Sobolev Inequality with Finitely Many Sharp

Remainder Terms
Alnar L. Detalla∗
Department of Mathematics
Central Mindanao University
Musuan, Bukidnon, Philippines
al_detalla@yahoo.com
Toshio Horiuchi and Hiroshi Ando
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Ibaraki University, Mito City, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

Let Ω be a bounded domain in ℝ𝑛 with 0 ∈ Ω. The well-known Hardy-Sobolev in-

equality
)2 ∫
∣𝑢(𝑥)∣2
(
𝑛−2
∫
∣∇𝑢∣2 𝑑𝑥 ≥ 𝑑𝑥 (1)
Ω 2 Ω ∣𝑥∣2

holds for any 𝑢 ∈ 𝑊01,2 (Ω), where 𝑊01,2 (Ω) is the completion of 𝐶0∞ (Ω) in the norm
)1
∣∣𝑢∣∣1,2,Ω := Ω ∣𝑢(𝑋)∣2 𝑑𝑥 + Ω ∣∇𝑢(𝑥)∣2 𝑑𝑥 2 . It is known that there is no function 𝑢 ∈
(∫ ∫
)2
𝑊01,2 (Ω) for which the best constant 𝑛−2
(
2 is achieved. Hence it is natural to consider
that there exists "remainder terms" in the right hand side of (1). In this paper, we shall
prove the optimal improvement of (1) by proving the existence of finitely many sharp
( )−2
𝑅
remainder terms in the right hand side involving singular weight log ∣𝑥∣ . Here the
number of remainder terms depends on the choice of 𝑅.

∗
Presenting author.