1 Introduction
Analytic inequalities, including Sobolev inequalities, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, Hardy inequalities, and their fractional counterparts, play crucial roles in harmonic analysis, mathematical physics, and partial differential equations (PDEs). Interested readers can explore the works of Beckner and Pearson [Reference Beckner and Pearson4], Cotsiolis and Tavoularis [Reference Cotsiolis and Tavoularis9], Talenti [Reference Talenti36], Xiao and Zhai [Reference Xiao and Zhai42], and the references therein for further insights into Sobolev-type inequalities.
Trace inequalities of Sobolev type, logarithmic Sobolev type, and Hardy type, particularly in the context of operators and equations, have also been extensively studied. Xiao established sharp fractional Sobolev trace inequalities linked to the Poisson equation in [Reference Xiao39]. Einav and Loss [Reference Einav and Loss15] proved Sobolev trace inequalities involving the projector $\tau _k$ . More recently, Li, Hu, and Zhai [Reference Li, Hu and Zhai27] contributed to the field by establishing fractional Sobolev, logarithmic Sobolev, and Hardy trace inequalities associated with fractional harmonic extensions.
In this article, our objective is to establish Sobolev, logarithmic Sobolev, and Hardy trace-type inequalities associated with the solution of the following time-space fractional equations:
where $\alpha>n$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ . Here, the Caputo fractional derivative, denoted by $\partial ^{\beta }_{t}$ , is defined as
Additionally, the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta _x)^{\alpha /2}$ in $\mathbb {R}^n$ is defined on the Schwartz class through the Fourier transform:
When $\beta =1,$ the equations (1.1) become fractional diffusion equations:
The Carleson embedding associated with (1.2) has been extensively studied in various works, including Adams and Hedberg [Reference Adams and Hedberg1], Chang and Xiao [Reference Chang and Xiao8], Liu, Wu, Xiao, and Yuan [Reference Liu, Wu, Xiao and Yuan29], Xiao [Reference Xiao38], Xiao and Zhai [Reference Xiao and Zhai42], and Zhai [Reference Zhai46]. These studies have contributed to the understanding of the Carleson embedding properties related to the fractional diffusion equations. When $\beta =1$ and $\alpha =2$ , the equation (1.1) corresponds to the classical heat equation, a fundamental equation with widespread applications in various fields, including mathematics, physics, fluid dynamics, and engineering.
If $\beta =1$ and $\alpha \in (0,2)$ , the equations (1.1) transform into the spatial fractional heat equation. This equation has found applications in the study of fluid dynamics, contributing to the understanding of heat transfer processes.
When $\beta \in (0,1)$ and $\alpha =2$ , the equations (1.1) become the so-called “time fractional” heat equations:
The equations (1.3) exhibit sub-diffusive behavior and are associated with anomalous diffusion or diffusion in non-homogeneous media with random fractal structures.
The introduction of the time-fractional derivative $\partial ^{\beta }_{t}$ by Caputo in [Reference Caputo7] marked a significant development for investigating the analytic expression of a linear dissipative mechanism. In mathematical physics and engineering, Caputo fractional derivatives and their generalizations have become instrumental in addressing unconventional physical phenomena, capturing the attention of numerous researchers. For further exploration of generalizations of Caputo derivatives, readers can refer to works by Bernardis, Martín-Reyes, Stinga, and Torrea [Reference Bernardis, Martín-Reyes, Stinga and Torrea5], Gorenflo, Luchko, and Yamamoto [Reference Gorenflo, Luchko and Yamamoto18], Kilbas, Srivastava, and Trujillo [Reference Kilbas, Srivastava and Trujillo25], and Li and Liu [Reference Li and Liu26].
Fractional derivatives offer distinct advantages compared to integer-order derivatives. They capture the history-dependent development of a system function more accurately due to global correlation. The fractional derivative model also addresses the limitations of classical differential model theory, providing better agreement with experimental results. Additionally, in describing complex physical and mechanical problems, fractional-order models often offer clarity and conciseness compared to nonlinear models. Leveraging these advantages, time-fractional calculus finds widespread application in various scientific branches, including statistical mechanics, theoretical physics, theoretical neuroscience, the theory of complex chemical reactions, fluid dynamics, hydrology, and mathematical finance. For an extensive list of references, readers can consult Khoshnevisan [Reference Khoshnevisan24].
In Section 2.2, we utilize the subordinative formula to estimate the higher-order derivatives of the integral kernels associated with the fractional heat semigroups ${e^{-t(-\Delta _x)^{\alpha /2}}}$ for $t>0$ , denoted by $K_{\alpha ,t}(\cdot )$ (refer to Lemmas 2.2 and 2.8). The time-space fractional heat kernel, denoted by $G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot )$ , is introduced as the fundamental solution to equations (1.1). Through the representation (2.1), we establish that for $m\in \mathbb {Z}_{+}$ , the following estimates hold:
These estimates are detailed in Propositions 2.10 and 2.11.
Let $C_0^{\infty }(\mathbb {R}^n)$ represents the space of infinitely differentiable functions on $\mathbb R^{n}$ with compact support. For $\nu \in (0,1)$ and $p\in (1,n/\nu )$ , the homogeneous Sobolev space $\dot {W}^{\nu }_p(\mathbb {R}^n)$ is defined as the completion of $C_0^{\infty }(\mathbb R^{n})$ with respect to the norm
Specially, when $p=2$ , $\dot {W}_{2}^{\nu }(\mathbb {R}^n)$ is also denoted by $\dot {H}^{\nu }(\mathbb {R}^n).$ Moreover, $\dot {W}^{-\nu }_{p'}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ is the dual of $\dot {W}^{\nu }_{p}(\mathbb {R}^n).$ In Section 3, considering f in the homogeneous Sobolev space $\dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ , and utilizing the Fourier transform of $G^{\alpha ,\beta }_t(\cdot )$ , we establish equivalent characterizations of the norm of $\dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ as follows:
Here, $\widetilde {\nabla }_{x}^{m}:=(\partial ^m_{x_1},\partial ^m_{x_2},\ldots ,\partial ^m_{x_n})$ (refer to (3.4)). Building upon this result, we establish fractional Sobolev, logarithmic Sobolev, and Hardy trace-type inequalities. For any ${f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)}$ and $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}\ast f(x)$ , the fractional Sobolev trace inequality is given by
This result is detailed in Theorem 3.1. Furthermore, when $\|f\|_{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , the following fractional logarithmic Sobolev inequality and the fractional Hardy inequality (or the Kato inequality) are established:
These results are detailed in Theorem 3.1. Xiao [Reference Xiao39] established inequalities akin to (1.4) and the first inequality of (1.5) for the Poisson extension. Li, Hu, and Zhai in [Reference Li, Hu and Zhai27] investigated corresponding inequalities related to the Caffarelli–Silvestre extensions. Inequalities similar to the second inequality of (1.5) have been examined in [Reference Beckner and Pearson4, Reference Eilertsen14, Reference Hajaiej, Yu and Zhai21, Reference Herbst23, Reference Nguyen34, Reference Xiao and Zhai42, Reference Yafaev43]. We will demonstrate that the right-hand side of (1.4) and (1.5) can be replaced by
(see Theorem 3.3). Via a change of variable, inequalities similar to (1.4) and (1.5) in Theorems 3.1 and 3.3 can be proven for $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ and $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x)$ (see Theorems 3.2 and 3.4).
Moreover, Theorems 3.1 and 3.3 imply the following Sobolev-type trace inequalities:
for $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ and $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x).$ Via a change of variable, for $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ and $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x),$ the following equivalent version:
can be deduced from Theorems 3.2 and 3.4 immediately.
To generalize the Sobolev-type trace inequalities in Theorem 3.1 to $\dot {W}_p^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n),$ in Theorem 3.10, we characterize $\dot {W}_p^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ as follows:
and
with $p>1,\ \nu \in (0,2)$ and $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x).$ Moreover, we establish fractional logarithmic Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities which imply the $L^p$ -logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for $\dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb R^{n}).$
A direct computation indicates that the inequality (1.6) is invariant under the transform $\phi (x)=\lambda x+x_{0}$ for $\lambda>0$ and $x_{0}\in \mathbb R^{n}$ , i.e.,
However, both the Lebesgue space $L^{2n/(n-\nu )}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with
and the Sobolev space $\dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with
are not invariant under the transform $\phi $ . In [Reference Xiao39], using the characterization of Q-type space $Q_{\kappa }(\mathbb R^{n})$ , Xiao obtained a revised conformal invariant Sobolev-type trace inequality (see [Reference Xiao39, Theorem 4.1]). In Theorem 5.4, following the idea of [Reference Xiao39], we prove the local versions of (1.4) for $f\in Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \{ 2, n\})$ and $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x):$
and
Notations: In this paper, $A\lesssim B$ means $A\leq CB$ for a positive constant C. $A\approx B$ means that $A\lesssim B$ and $B\lesssim A$ . Let $k \in \mathbb {N}.$ Here, $\mathbb {N}$ denotes the set of natural numbers. The symbol $C^{k}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ denotes the class of all functions $f : \mathbb {R}^n \to \mathbb {R}$ with k continuous partial derivatives. Denote by $f\ast g$ the convolution of functions f and g, i.e.,
2 Preliminaries
2.1 Basic lemmas
First, we investigate the integrability of the Fourier transform of the time-space fractional heat kernel $G_{t}^{\alpha , \beta }(\cdot )$ .
Definition 2.1 Let $\alpha>n/2$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ . We say $G_t^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot )$ is the time-space fractional heat kernel if for $(x,t)\in \mathbb {R}^n\times (0,\infty )$ ,
where $g_\beta (\cdot )$ is the density function of $D_1$ and is infinitely differentiable on the entire real line with $g_\beta (u)=0$ for $u\leq 0$ ( cf. [Reference Foondun and Nane17]) and $K_{\alpha ,t}(\cdot )$ denotes the fractional heat kernel defined as
It follows from [Reference Foondun and Nane17, (2.5)] that, when $u\to \infty $ , there holds
Following [Reference Foondun and Nane17, p. 8], the Fourier transform of the kernel $G_t^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot )$ can be represented as
where
Here, the symbol $\Gamma (\cdot )$ denotes the Gamma function and $E_{\beta } (\cdot )$ is Mittag-Leffler function.
Remark 2.2 In [Reference Foondun and Nane17], the time-space fractional heat kernel $G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot )$ is defined by
where $\widehat {p(\cdot ,s)}(\xi )=e^{-s|\xi |^{\alpha }}=\widehat {K_{\alpha ,s}}(\xi )$ and
By the change of variable: $u=ts^{-1/\beta }$ , we have
Thus, we use $(t/u)^{\beta }$ as the subscript in (2.1). Such a representation of $G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot )$ was also used by Foondun and Nane [Reference Foondun and Nane17]. Precisely,
(see [Reference Foondun and Nane17, p. 502, line 10]).
For $\alpha =2$ and $\beta =1$ , Foondun and Nane [Reference Foondun and Nane17, p. 501, (2.12)] pointed out that when $n=1$ , the kernel $G^{2,1}_{t}(\cdot )$ becomes
The cases $n\geq 2$ are similar. In fact, by (2.2), we have
Then for $n\geq 2$ , we can obtain
which indicates that $G_{t}^{2,1}(\cdot )$ becomes the classical heat kernel.
Remark 2.3 Let $\mathcal {L}$ be the Laplace transform, i.e.,
After applying the Fourier transform and the Laplace transform to $G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }(\cdot ),$ we have
By [Reference Meerschaert and Straka32, p. 3, (2.9) and (2.10)], the Laplace transform $t\to s$ of $f_{E_{t}}(w)$ is
Then
Thus, by the inverse Laplace transform, we can get
Remark 2.4 Applying the Laplace transform to $\partial ^{\beta }_{t}u(x,t)$ , we have
After applying the Fourier transform and the Laplace transform to (1.1), we can get
which indicates that
Applying the inverse Laplace transform, we obtain
We can use the inverse Fourier transform to deduce that
Thus, the solution to equations (1.1) can be represented as (2.3).
Lemma 2.5 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha> n+m$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ .
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(i) It holds
(2.4) $$ \begin{align} \begin{cases} \int_{0}^{\infty}|E_\beta(-t)|^2t^\delta dt<\infty,&\qquad\ \ \ -1<\delta<1,\\ \int_{0}^{\infty}\Big|\frac{d{^m}E_\beta(-t)}{d{t^m}}\Big|^2t^{\delta} dt<\infty,&\ -1<\delta<2m+1. \end{cases} \end{align} $$ -
(ii) If $\delta \in (-1,2\alpha -1)$ , there exists a constant $M(n,\alpha ,\beta ,\delta )$ such that
$$ \begin{align*} \int_{0}^{\infty}\left| \widehat{G}_{t^{\alpha/\beta}}^{\alpha,\beta}(\xi)\right|^2 t^{\delta}dt=M(n,\alpha,\beta,\delta)|\xi|^{-\delta-1}.\end{align*} $$ -
(iii) If $\delta \in (2m-1,2m+2\alpha -1)$ , $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ and $\alpha>m$ , then
$$ \begin{align*}\int_{0}^{\infty} \left| \frac{\partial^m\widehat{G}_{t^{\alpha/\beta}}^{\alpha,\beta}(\xi)}{\partial t^m}\right|^2 t^{\delta}dt\approx|\xi|^{2m-\delta-1}.\end{align*} $$
Proof It follows from [Reference Foondun and Nane17, (2.7)] that for $t>0$ ,
Assume that $-1< {\delta }<1$ . Then
Following Haubold, Mathai, and Saxena [Reference Haubold, Mathai and Saxena22], as $t\to \infty ,$ for $M\in \mathbb {N}_{+}$ , we have
Then
There exists a constant $A_\beta $ for t in a neighborhood of $0$ such that
which indicates that when $-1<{\delta }<2m+1$ ,
(ii) For ${\delta }\in (-1,2\alpha -1)$ , by the change of variable $u=|\xi |^\alpha t^\alpha $ , we can obtain
(iii) Notice that
For ${\delta } \in (2m-1,2\alpha +2m-1)$ and $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , (2.4) implies
Then
This proves (2.5).
Denote by $\mathcal M$ the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator, i.e.,
Lemma 2.6 For $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha> 1/2$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ , there exists a constant C depending only on n, $\alpha $ and $\beta $ such that for $ x, y \in \mathbb {R}^n$ and $ f\in C_0^\infty (\mathbb {R}^n)$ ,
Proof Let $f_{t,\alpha ,\beta }(x):=f(t^{\beta /\alpha }x)$ . For any ball $B\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ centered at $x_B$ with radius $r_B$ , define $B_{t,\alpha ,\beta }$ as $B_{t,\alpha ,\beta }:=B(t^{\beta /\alpha }x_B,t^{\beta /\alpha }r_B)$ . If $x\in B$ , then $t^{\beta /\alpha }x\in B_{t,\alpha ,\beta }$ . Hence, it is easy to see that
We only need to prove
In fact, if (2.8) holds, (2.7) and the change of variable $z=t^{\alpha /\beta }u$ give
Below, we prove (2.8). If $|x|<|y|$ , it is obvious that $G_1^{\alpha ,\beta }(x-y)<1$ . On the other hand, for $|x|\geq |y|$ , it can be deduced from the triangle inequality that
Set the decreasing radial majorant function of $G_1^{\alpha ,\beta }(x-y)$ as
With a slight abuse of notation, let us write $\psi ^{\alpha ,\beta }_y(x)=\psi ^{\alpha ,\beta }_y(r)$ if $|x|=r$ . We can get
which, together with the inequality:
implies that
It follows from a direct computation that
Then we use the change of variable: $|x|-|y|=r$ to deduce that
Here, $C_{n-1}^k$ denotes the number of combinations of choosing k many objects from a group of $n-1$ many objects. Notice that $k\leq n-1$ and $n+\alpha -k\geq \alpha +1>1$ . There exists $A>0$ such that
which makes
Lemma 2.7 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha> 1/2$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ . There exists a constant C depending only on n, $\alpha $ and $\beta $ such that for $ x, y \in \mathbb {R}^n$ and $ f\in C_0^\infty (\mathbb {R}^n)$ ,
Proof Let $f_{t}(x):=f(tx)$ . For any ball $B\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ centered at $x_B$ with radius $r_B$ , denote by $B_{t}$ the ball $B(tx_B,tr_B)$ . If $x\in B$ , then $tx\in B_{t}$ . Hence, it is easy to see that
By (2.8) and (2.9), we can obtain
which indicates Lemma 2.7.
2.2 Regularity of time-space fractional heat kernels
For $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , define
Lemma 2.8 Let $\alpha>1/2$ , $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $x \in \mathbb {R}^n$ and $t>0$ .
Proof The subordinative formula [Reference Grigor’yan19, (5.31)] indicates that $K_{\alpha ,t}(\cdot )$ can be expressed as
where $K_s(\cdot )$ denotes the integral kernel of the heat semigroup $\{e^{-s(-\Delta _x)}\}_{s>0}$ . Here, the nonnegative continuous function $\eta _t^\alpha (\cdot )$ satisfies
When m is odd, we can get
Then
where $c_m$ is a constant depending on m.
When m is even, we have
For this case, we can obtain
Then letting $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+,$ we can get
By $s=t^{2/\alpha }h$ , (2.10) and (2.11) imply
Let $y=t^{2/\alpha }h/|x|^2$ . It holds
On the other hand, the fact $\eta _t^\alpha (s)= (1/t^{2/\alpha })\eta _1^\alpha (s/t^{2/\alpha })$ implies
By (2.10), we get
which gives
Thus, it indicates that
Case 1: $0\leq t^{1/\alpha }\leq |x|$ . We have
Case 2: $|x|<t^{1/\alpha }.$ It can be deduced that
which gives
Lemma 2.9 For $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha> 1/2$ , $\beta \in (0,1]$ and $t>0$ , there holds
Proof By (2.10), we get
Then
By (2.2) and the higher-order derivative formula of composite functions, we can obtain
Letting $s=t^{2/\alpha }h/|x|^2$ and $y=t^{2/\alpha }h/|x|^2,$ we can get
On the other hand, the fact $\int _{0}^{\infty }\eta _1^\alpha (h)h^{-n/2}dh<\infty $ implies
Thus, we can get
Below, we estimate the regularity of the time-space fractional heat kernel $G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}(\cdot )$ .
Proposition 2.10 Let $\alpha> n+m$ , $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ and $\beta \in (0,1]$ . Then
Proof By Lemma 2.8, we know
where
For the term I, by Definition 2.1, since $\lim \limits _{u\to 0}g_\beta (u)=0$ , we can get
Since $\alpha>0$ ,
and
When $u\to \infty $ and $m<\alpha $ , we know $g_\beta (u)\approx \frac {\beta }{\Gamma (1-\beta )}u^{-\beta -1}$ . Then
We can obtain
and
Let $\alpha>n+m$ . If $|x|<t$ ,
On the other hand, if $|x|\geq t$ ,
Then
which proves Proposition 2.10.
Similarly, we can obtain the following result.
Proposition 2.11 For $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ and $t>0$ , there holds
Proof At first, (2.1) implies
Then it follows from Proposition 2.10 that
which yields
where
According to [Reference Foondun and Nane17, (2.4) and (2.5)], we have
Noting that $\alpha>n$ and ${\beta (n+\alpha )/\alpha }<2\beta $ , we can obtain
and
On the other hand, since
we get
The proof of Proposition 2.11 is completed.
3 Fractional trace inequalities via the time-space fractional extension
3.1 Fractional trace inequalities involving $\widetilde {\nabla }^m_{x}u(x,t^{{\alpha /\beta }})$ and $\frac {\partial ^mu(x,t^{\alpha /\beta })}{\partial t^m}$
Theorem 3.1 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f.
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(i) There holds
(3.1) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})|^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
(3.2) $$ \begin{align} \exp\Bigg(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\Bigg)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})|^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$ -
(iii) There holds
(3.3) $$ \begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^\nu}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})|^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$
Proof In order to prove (i) of Theorem 3.1, we need to establish the following result: for $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ ,
In fact, notice that $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)$ . It holds
In (2.4) of Lemma 2.5, take $\nu \in (0,\min \{2m,n\})$ and $m<\alpha $ . We get
Hence
We know that
It follows from the well-known fractional Sobolev inequality:
for $\nu \in (0,n)$ and some constant $B(n,\nu )$ that (3.1) holds.
Now, we want to prove (ii) of Theorem 3.1. Let $p=n(r-2)/\nu $ , $2<r<2n/(n-\nu )$ and $\nu \in (0,\min \{n,2m\})$ . The Hölder inequality implies that
If $\|f\|_{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , it can be deduced from (3.5) that
The inequality (3.1) implies that for a positive constant $A(n,s,\nu )$ ,
which yields
Since $\|f\|_{L^{2}(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , $d\mu (x):=|f(x)|^2dx$ can be treated as a probability measure on $\mathbb {R}^n$ . Thus (3.2) can be obtained by letting $r\rightarrow 2$ . In fact,
which implies (3.2).
At last, the inequality (3.3) follows from (3.4) and the fractional Hardy inequality.
which is a special case of [Reference Xiao and Zhai42, (3.1) in Theorem 3.1]
As an immediate corollary of Theorem 3.1, we can obtain the following result.
Theorem 3.2 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ and $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2m,n\right \rbrace )$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. Then, the following statements are true.
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(i) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t)|^2t^{\beta(2m-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
$$ \begin{align*} \exp\Bigg(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\Bigg)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t)|^2t^{\beta(2m-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(iii) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^\nu}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}^m_{x}u(x,t)|^2t^{\beta(2m-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$
Proof By the change of variable: $t=\omega ^{\alpha /\beta }$ , we have
Similarly to the proof of Theorem 3.1, we can prove Theorem 3.2.
Theorem 3.3 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \{ 2\alpha , n\})$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f.
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(i) There holds
(3.6) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})}{\partial t^m}\right| }^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
(3.7) $$ \begin{align} \exp\Bigg(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\Bigg)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})}{\partial t^m}\right|}^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$ -
(iii) There holds
(3.8) $$ \begin{align} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{\nu}}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})}{\partial t^m}\right| }^2t^{2m-1-\nu}d{x}d{t}. \end{align} $$
Proof In order to prove (3.6), we need to prove that for $\nu \in (0,\min \left \lbrace 2\alpha ,n\right \rbrace )$ , there exists a constant $a(n,\alpha ,\beta ,\nu )$ such that
In fact, noting that $u(x,t^{\alpha /\beta })=G_{t^{\alpha /\beta }}^{\alpha ,\beta }\ast f(x)$ , we can apply (2.5) to deduce that
Denote
Let $u=|\xi |^\alpha t^\alpha $ . Then
We get
By Lemma 2.5, for $\nu \in (0,\min \{2\alpha ,n\})$ and $\alpha>m$ , we can obtain $-1<2i-1-\nu /\alpha <2i+1$ and
Then
which indicates
Theorem 3.3 can be proved in a way similar to that of Theorem 3.1.
Theorem 3.4 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \{ 2\alpha , n\})$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. Then the following statements are true.
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(i) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t)}{\partial t^m}\right| }^2t^{2m-1-\beta\nu/\alpha}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
$$ \begin{align*} \exp\Bigg(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\Bigg)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t)}{\partial t^m}\right|}^2t^{2m-1-\beta\nu/\alpha}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(iii) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{\nu}}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| \frac{\partial^m u(x,t)}{\partial t^m}\right| }^2t^{2m-1-\beta\nu/\alpha}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$
Proof The proof of this theorem is similar to that of Theorem 3.3. Notice that
Letting $u=|\xi |^\alpha t^\beta $ , we can get
Then
By Lemma 2.5, for $\nu \in (0,\min \{2\alpha ,n\})$ and $\alpha>m$ , we can obtain $-1<2i-1-\nu /\alpha <2i+1$ and
Then
which indicates
The rest of the proof is similar to that of Theorem 3.3 and so is omitted.
3.2 Fractional trace inequalities involving $(-\Delta _x)^{s/2}u(x,t^{{\alpha /\beta }})$
Theorem 3.5 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\nu \in (0,n)$ and $s\in (\nu /2,\alpha +\nu /2)$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}\ast f(x)$ the extension of f via the time-space fractional heat kernel. Then the following statements are true.
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(i) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})\right| }^2t^{2s-\nu-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
$$ \begin{align*} \exp\left(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\right)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})\right| }^2t^{2s-\nu-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(iii) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{\nu}}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t^{{\alpha/\beta}})\right| }^2t^{2s-\nu-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$
Proof We only need to prove
By (2.4), we have
Following the procedure of the proof of Theorem 3.1, we can prove Theorem 3.5 by using (3.9). We omit the details.
Theorem 3.6 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {H}^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\nu \in (0,n)$ and $s\in (\nu /2,\alpha +\nu /2)$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the extension of f via the time-space fractional heat kernel. Then the following statements are true.
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(i) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}^{}\left|f(x)\right|^{2n/(n-\nu)}d{x}\right)^{1-\nu/n} \lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t)\right| }^2t^{\beta(2s-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(ii) If $\vert \vert f\vert \vert _{L^2(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds
$$ \begin{align*} \exp\left(\frac{\nu}{n}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\ln(|f(x)|^2)d{x}\right)\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t)\right| }^2t^{\beta(2s-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$ -
(iii) There holds
$$ \begin{align*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^2\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{\nu}}\lesssim\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}{\left| (-\Delta_x)^{s/2}u(x,t)\right| }^2t^{\beta(2s-\nu)/\alpha-1}d{x}d{t}. \end{align*} $$
Proof Similarly to Theorem 3.5, we only need to prove
It follows from (2.4) that
3.3 The general case $p>$ 1
In Theorem 3.1, we consider the scope of $(p,\nu )$ when $p=2$ and $\nu \in (0, \min \{n,2\})$ . We can generalize inequalities in Theorem 3.1 to the general case $p\in (1,\infty ).$
To obtain the Sobolev-type trace inequalities for the general index p, we need a characterization of the Sobolev spaces $\dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb R^{n})$ via the time-space fractional heat kernel.
Definition 3.7 For $\tau =(\tau _{1},\tau _{2},\ldots ,\tau _{n}) \in \mathbb {N}^n$ , denote $|\tau |=\sum _{i=1}^{n}\tau _i$ and $\partial ^\tau :=\partial ^{\tau _1}_{\xi _1}\dots \partial ^{\tau _n}_{\xi _n}$ .
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(C1) (Cancellation) Let $\widehat {\Phi }\in C^{n+1+[\Lambda ]}(\mathbb {R}^n\setminus \{0\})$ such that for every $|\tau |\leq n+1+[\Lambda ]$ , we have
$$ \begin{align*}\partial^{\tau}\widehat{\Phi}=O(|\xi|^{r-|\tau|}) \quad \text{ as } |\xi| \to 0.\end{align*} $$ -
(C2) For every $\xi \in \mathbb {S}^{n-1}$ , there exist $a_1,a_2\in \mathbb {R}$ (depending on $\xi $ ) with $0<2a_1\leq a_2$ such that for every $a_1<t<a_2$ , $|\widehat {\Phi }(t\xi )|>0.$
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(C3) Take $\widehat {\Phi }\in C^{n+1+[\Lambda ]}(\mathbb {R}^n\setminus \{0\})$ such that for every $|\tau |\leq n+1+[\Lambda ]$ , we have
$$ \begin{align*}\partial^{\tau}\widehat{\Phi}=O(|\xi|^{-n-b})\quad \text{ as }|\xi|\to \infty.\end{align*} $$
Lemma 3.8 [Reference Bui and Candy6, Theorem 1.1(i)]
Let $\nu \in \mathbb {R}$ , $0<p\leq \infty $ and $\zeta \geq 0$ with $\zeta>\nu /2-n/p$ . Assume that $(1+|\cdot |)^\zeta \Phi \in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ and $\Phi $ satisfies (C1) and (C3) for $\Lambda =n/p$ , $r>\nu /2$ and $b>\Lambda -\nu /2$ . If $f\in \dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ , there exists a polynomial g such that $f-g$ is a distribution of growth $\zeta $ and we have inequalities
Lemma 3.9 [Reference Bui and Candy6, Theorem 5.3]
Let $0<p\leq \infty $ and $\nu \in \mathbb {R}$ . Let $\Lambda \geq 0$ and $b_0> \Lambda -\nu /2$ . Assume $(1+|\cdot |)^{-\zeta }f\in L^{\infty }$ with $\zeta \geq 0$ . Suppose $\Phi \in L^{1}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ satisfies the (C2) with $(1+|\cdot |)^{\zeta } \Phi (\cdot )\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . Furthermore, assume that $\widehat {\Phi } \in C^{n+1+\max \{[\zeta ],[\Lambda ]\}}(\mathbb {R}^n\setminus \{0\})$ with
for $|\tau |\leq \max \{ [\Lambda ],[\zeta ]\}+1$ . If $\Lambda =n/p$ , then
Theorem 3.10 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m+n/p$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in \dot {W}_p^{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $p>1, \nu \in (0,2)$ and $(1+|\cdot |)^{\zeta }f\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\zeta>\max \{0,\nu /2-n/p\}$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. Then
and
Proof Denote
where $\Phi _{1,t}(x)=t^{-n}\Phi _{1}(x/t)$ . Without loss of generality, for every $|\tau |\leq n+1+[\gamma ]$ and all $\xi _j\in \{\xi _1,\xi _2,\ldots ,\xi _n\}$ , we just prove that $\xi _i^mE_{\beta }(-|\xi |^{\alpha })$ satisfies
Case 1: $i\neq j$ .
It follows from (2.6) that for $|\xi |$ in a neighborhood of $0$ , we know
Since $\alpha>n+n/p+m$ , we get
Then (2.5) and $\alpha>n+n/p+m$ imply
Case 2: $i=j$ . When $m\geq | \tau |$ , we have
Then we have
Since $\alpha>n+m+n/p$ and (2.5), we get
On the other hand, when $m<| \tau |$ , we can obtain
Moreover, we can get
and
By (3.12), when $r=m/2+\nu /4$ , $b=n/p$ and $b_{0}=n/p$ , $|\widehat {\Phi }_{1,i}|$ satisfies (C1), (C2), and (C3) in Lemmas 3.8 and 3.9. Thus, we know
Below, we prove (3.11). For $\Phi _{2,t}(x)=t^{-n}\Phi _{2}(x/t)$ , we have
where $E_\beta ^i(-t)=\frac {d^i}{d t^i}(E_\beta (-t))$ . Similarly to $\widehat {\Phi }_1$ , we just prove
By a direct calculation, we can obtain
Then we can obtain
Similarly, when $r=m/2+\nu /4$ , $b=n/p$ and $b_{0}=n/p$ , $|\widehat {\Phi }_{2}|$ satisfies (C1), (C2), and (C3) in Lemmas 3.8 and 3.9. Hence, we have
Similarly, by Lemmas 3.8 and 3.9, we know
For a compact set $K\subset \mathbb {R}^{n}$ , the fractional-Sobolev capacity $C^{p}_\nu (K)$ is defined as
and for any set $E\subset \mathbb R^{n}$ , one defines
where $1_E$ denotes the characteristic function of E. Let $1_{O}$ denote the characteristic function of the set O. In [Reference Li, Hu and Zhai28], Li, Hu, and Zhai obtained the following results.
Lemma 3.11 [Reference Li, Hu and Zhai28, Theorem 3.2]
Let $\nu \in (0,2)$ , $1\leq p<2n/\nu $ and $f\in C^{\infty }_0(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . The following statements are equivalent.
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(i) The analytic inequality:
(3.14) $$ \begin{align} \left(\int_{0}^{\infty}(V(O_t(f)))^{(2n-p\nu)/(2n)}dt^p \right)^{1/p}\lesssim ||f||_{\dot{W}^{\nu/2}_{p}(\mathbb{R}^n)}, \end{align} $$where $O_t(f):=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^n:|f(x)|>t\}$ and $V(O_t):= \int _{\mathbb {R}^n} 1_{O_t}dx$ . -
(ii) The fractional Sobolev inequality:
(3.15) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\frac{|f(x)|^p}{|x|^{p\nu/2}}dx\right)^{1/p} \lesssim ||f||_{\dot{W}^{\nu/2}_{p}(\mathbb{R}^n)}. \end{align} $$ -
(iii) The fractional Hardy inequality:
(3.16) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^{np/(n-p\nu/2)}d{x}\right)^{(n-p\nu/2)/np}\lesssim ||f||_{\dot{W}^{\nu/2}_{p}(\mathbb{R}^n)}. \end{align} $$ -
(iv) For any bounded domain $O\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ with $C^\infty $ boundary $\partial O$ , the iso-capacitary inequalities:
(3.17) $$ \begin{align} (V(O))^{1-p\nu/(2n)}\lesssim C^{p}_{\nu/2}(\overline{O}). \end{align} $$Moreover, (3.14), (3.15), (3.16), and (3.17) are all true.
Notice that the proof of (3.16) can be found in [Reference DiNezza, Palatucci and Valdinoci13, Reference Maz’ya and Shaposhnikova31]. For (3.15), readers can see [Reference Maz’ya and Shaposhnikova31] and the references therein.
Similarly to the inequalities involving fractional Laplacian in [Reference Hajaiej, Yu and Zhai21, Theorem 2.5 and Corollary 2.6], we will prove fractional logarithmic Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities which imply the $L^p$ -logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for $\dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb R^{n}).$
Theorem 3.12 Let $1<q<\infty $ , $0<\nu <2n$ , $1<p<2n/\nu $ and $f\in \dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb R^{n})\cap L^{q}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\|f\|_{L^{q}(\mathbb {R}^n)}>0.$ Then the following inequality holds.
Proof Let
where $g(\cdot )$ is a convex function. For $h>h_1\geq 0$ , we can obtain
Taking $h=1/q$ , $h_1=1/p_{1}$ and $0<q<p_1\leq \infty $ , by [Reference Merker33, Lemma 1], we have
For $\gamma>0$ , Hölder’s inequality implies
where $1/p_2'+1/p_3'=1$ , $p_2:=\gamma p_2'$ and $p_3:=(p_1-\gamma )/p_3'$ . By (3.16), for $1/p+(n-\nu /2)/n=1+1/p_2$ , we get
Then we can choose $p_1=nq/(n-q\nu /2) \in (q,\infty )$ for $p_3=q$ , $\gamma $ and p satisfying
Hence,
We can get $\frac {q\gamma }{p_1-q}=\frac {1}{{1}/{q}+{\nu }/{(2n)}-{1}/{p}}.$
When $p=q$ and $\|f\|_{L^q(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ , there holds the $L^p$ -logarithmic-type Sobolev inequality.
Corollary 3.13 Let $0<\nu <2n$ , $1<p<2n/\nu $ , $f\in \dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb {R}^{n})$ with $\|f\|_{L^p(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ . Then
Let $f\in \dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\nu \in (0,2)$ and $(1+|\cdot |)^{\zeta }f\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . Using (iii) of Lemma 3.11, we can obtain the following Sobolev-type trace inequality: for $f\in \dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $p>1$ and $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f,
and
For $s=t^{\alpha /\beta }$ and (3.10), we can obtain
Notice that
Then
By (3.11), we can obtain
Moreover, based on Corollary 3.13 and (ii) of Lemma 3.11, applying (3.10) and (3.11), we can establish the logarithmic Sobolev trace inequalities for $\|f\|_{L^p(\mathbb {R}^n)}=1$ :
and the Hardy-type trace inequalities:
Furthermore, the right-hand side of (3.21) and (3.23) can be replaced by
The right-hand side of (3.22) and (3.24) can be replaced by
Therefore, Theorems 3.1 and 3.3 can be generalized to $p>1.$
As a direct consequence of Lemma 3.11 and Corollary 3.13, we can use (3.10) and (3.11) to deduce the following results.
Corollary 3.14 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m+n/p$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $\nu \in (0,2)$ , $1< p<2n/\nu $ and $f\in C^{\infty }_0(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. The following statements are equivalent.
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(i) The analytic inequality:
(3.25) $$ \begin{align} \left(\int_{0}^{\infty}(V(O_t(f)))^{(2n-p\nu)/(2n)}dt^p \right)^{1/p}\lesssim \left(\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})|^pt^{pm-p\nu/2-1}d{x}d{t} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(ii) The fractional Sobolev trace inequality:
(3.26) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^{np/(n-p\nu/2)}d{x}\right)^{(n-p\nu/2)/np}\lesssim \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})|^pt^{pm-p\nu/2-1}d{x}d{t} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(iii) The fractional Hardy inequality:
(3.27) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^p\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{p\nu/2}}\right)^{1/p} \lesssim \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,t^{\alpha/\beta})|^pt^{pm-p\nu/2-1}d{x}d{t} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(iv) For any bounded domain $O\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ with $C^\infty $ boundary $\partial O$ , the iso-capacitary inequalities:
$$ \begin{align*}(V(O))^{1-p\nu/(2n)}\lesssim C^{p}_{\nu/2}(\overline{O}). \end{align*} $$Moreover, (3.25), (3.26), and (3.27) are all true, and the right-hand side of (3.25), (3.26), and (3.27) can be replaced by$$ \begin{align*}\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}\left| \frac{\partial^mu(x,{t^{\alpha/\beta}})}{\partial t^m} \right|^pt^{pm-p\nu/2-1} d{x}d{t}\right) ^{{1}/{p}} .\end{align*} $$
Proof If $f\in C^\infty _0(\mathbb R^{n})$ , we know $(1+|\cdot |)^\zeta f\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . By (3.10) and (3.11), we have
Then Corollary 3.14 follows from Lemma 3.11 and Corollary 3.13.
Corollary 3.15 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m+n/p$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $\nu \in (0,2)$ , $1< p<2n/\nu $ and $f\in C^{\infty }_0(\mathbb {R}^n)$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. The following statements are equivalent.
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(i) The analytic inequality:
(3.28) $$ \begin{align} \left(\int_{0}^{\infty}(V(O_t(f)))^{(2n-p\nu)/(2n)}dt^p \right)^{1/p} \lesssim \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,s)|^ps^{\beta pm/\alpha-p\beta\nu/(2\alpha)-1}d{x}d{s} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(ii) The fractional Sobolev inequality:
(3.29) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^{np/(n-p\nu/2)}d{x}\right)^{(n-p\nu/2)/np} \lesssim\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,s)|^ps^{\beta pm/\alpha-p\beta\nu/(2\alpha)-1}d{x}d{s} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(iii) The fractional Hardy inequality:
(3.30) $$ \begin{align} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|f(x)|^p\frac{d{x}}{|x|^{p\nu/2}}\right)^{1/p}\lesssim \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}|\widetilde{\nabla}_x^m u(x,s)|^ps^{\beta pm/\alpha-p\beta\nu/(2\alpha)-1}d{x}d{s} \right)^{1/p}. \end{align} $$ -
(iv) For any bounded domain $O\subset \mathbb {R}^n$ with $C^\infty $ boundary $\partial O$ , the iso-capacitary inequalities:
$$ \begin{align*}(V(O))^{1-p\nu/(2n)}\lesssim C^{p}_{\nu/2}(\overline{O}). \end{align*} $$Moreover, (3.28), (3.29), and (3.30) are all true, and the right-hand side of (3.28), (3.29), and (3.30) can be replaced by$$ \begin{align*}\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}}\left| \sum_{i=1}^{m} s^i \frac{\partial^iu(x,s)}{\partial s^i} \right|^ps^{-1-\beta p\nu/(2\alpha)} d{x}d{s}\right) ^{{1}/{p}}.\end{align*} $$
Proof By (3.18) and (3.20), we have
4 Sobolev affine trace inequalities
Definition 4.1 Assume that $\sigma $ : $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}_+\to \mathbb {R}_+$ is a positive measurable function. Denote by $L^p(\mathbb {R}_+^{n+1},\sigma )$ the weighted Lebesgue space of all measurable functions $f: \mathbb {R}_+^{n+1}\to \mathbb {R}$ with
Define
where $A_{n,p}$ is a constant depending on $n,p$ .
The following affine Sobolev-type inequality was obtained in Haddad, Jiménez, and Montenegro [Reference Haddad, Jiménez and Montenegro20].
Theorem 4.2 [Reference Haddad, Jiménez and Montenegro20, Theorem 1.1]
Define a function $\sigma $ on $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}_+$ as $\sigma (x,t):=t^\gamma \, \forall \,(x,t)\in \mathbb {R}_+^{n+1}$ . Let $\gamma \geq 0$ , $1\leq p<n+\gamma +1$ and $p^*_\gamma =p(n+\gamma +1)/(n+\gamma +1-p)$ . There exists a sharp constant $J(n,p,\gamma )$ such that
Moreover, in (4.1), the equality holds if
where $(c,|\Delta _x|,x_0,A)\in \mathbb {R}\times \mathbb {R}_+\times \mathbb {R}^n\times GL_n$ . and $1_{\mathbb {B}^{n+1}}$ is the characteristic function of the unit ball in $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}$ and $GL_n$ denotes the set of all invertible real $n\times n$ -matrices.
Motivated by Lombardi and Xiao [Reference Lombardi and Xiao30], we establish the following affine trace inequality.
Theorem 4.3 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $f\in C^\infty _0(\mathbb {R}^n)$ and its time-space fractional extension $u(x,t ):=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)\ \forall \ (x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n+1}_{+}$ when $\nu \geq 1$ . For $p=\frac {2(n+\nu +2m)}{n+\nu +2+2m}$ and $\nu \geq 1-2m$ , there holds
Proof From (ii) and (iii) of Lemma 2.5, we know
when $2m-1<\gamma <2m+2\alpha -1$ . Let $\gamma =\nu +2m-1\in (2m-1,2m+2\alpha -1)$ . By Theorem 4.2, we can obtain $\sigma :=t^\gamma =t^{\nu +2m-1}$ and
Theorem 4.3 suggests
which can be generalized as follows.
Theorem 4.4 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m+n/p,\ p>1,\ \beta \in (0,1],\ t>0,\ f\in \dot {W}_p^{-\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\nu \in (0,2)$ and $(1+|\cdot |)^{\zeta }f\in L^1(\mathbb {R}^n)$ with $\zeta>\max \{0,\nu /2-n/p\}.$ For ${(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )}$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G^{\alpha ,\beta }_{t}*f(x)$ the extension of f via the time-space fractional heat kernel. Then
Proof Let
$\Phi _{3,t}(x)=t^{-n}\Phi _{3}(x/t)$ . Similarly to the proof of Theorem 3.10, for every $\xi _j\in \{\xi _1,\xi _2,\ldots ,\xi _n\}$ , we just prove
By (3.13), we can obtain
Using (2.6), for $|\xi |$ in a neighborhood of $0$ , we know
Take $r=\alpha $ . This indicates that
By (2.5), for $M>0$ , we know
So, for $b_0=b=n/p$ ,
If $|\tau |=0$ , for $r=-\nu /4>-\nu /2$ and $b=b_0=n/p$ , we have
Hence, by Lemmas 3.8 and 3.9, we can obtain
Then (4.2) and Theorem 4.2 imply that
where $\nu \in (2/p^*,2n)$ , $1\leq p<n+p^*\nu /2$ with $p^*$ satisfying $p^*\geq \max \left \lbrace 2/\nu ,1 \right \rbrace $ and
5 Local Sobolev-type trace inequalities
In this section, we prove (1.7) and (1.8) by the Carleson measure characterization of Q-type spaces $Q_{\kappa }(\mathbb R^{n})$ introduced in [Reference Dafni and Xiao11].
Definition 5.1 For $0\leq \kappa <1$ , $Q_{\kappa }(\mathbb {R}^n)$ is defined as the set of all locally integrable functions f such that
where the symbol $\sup _{I}$ denotes the supremum taken over all cubes I with the edge length $\ell (I)$ and the edges parallel to the coordinate axes in $\mathbb {R}^n$ .
In the literature, Q-type spaces were introduced as a new class of function spaces between $W^{1,n}(\mathbb {R}^{n})$ and $BMO(\mathbb {R}^{n})$ . In 1995, Aulaskari, Xiao, and Zhao [Reference Aulaskari, Xiao and Zhao3] first introduced a class of Möbius invariant analytic function space $Q_{p}(\mathbb {D})$ for $p\in (0,1)$ on the unit disk $\mathbb {D}$ of the complex plane. The class $Q_{p}(\mathbb {D})$ , $p\in (0,1)$ can be seen as subspaces and subsets of $BMOA$ and $UBC$ on $\mathbb {D}$ and were investigated extensively (see Aulaskari, Stegenga, and Xiao [Reference Aulaskari, Stegenga and Xiao2], Aulaskari, Xiao, and Zhao [Reference Aulaskari, Xiao and Zhao3], Xiao [Reference Xiao37, Reference Xiao40] and the references therein). As a class of analytic function spaces, the boundary of $Q_{p}(\mathbb {D})$ is $Q_{p}(\partial \mathbb {D})$ which was introduced by Nicolau and Xiao in [Reference Nicolau and Xiao35], where $\partial \mathbb D$ denotes the boundary of $\mathbb D$ . Correspondingly, in the setting of Euclidean spaces, the real-variable Q-type spaces $Q_{\kappa }(\mathbb R^{n})$ were first introduced by Essén, Janson, Peng, and Xiao [Reference Essén, Janson, Peng and Xiao16]. Since then, various characterizations of Q-type spaces have been established (see Cui and Yang [Reference Cui and Yang10], Dafni and Xiao [Reference Dafni and Xiao11, Reference Dafni and Xiao12], Yang and Yuan [Reference Yang and Yuan44, Reference Yang and Yuan45] and the references therein).
By the aid of Hausdorff capacities and tent spaces, Dafni and Xiao [Reference Dafni and Xiao11] proved the following equivalent characterization of $Q_{\kappa }(\mathbb R^{n})$ .
Theorem 5.2 [Reference Dafni and Xiao11, Theorems 3.3 and 7.0]
Given a $C^{\infty }$ real-valued function $\psi $ on $\mathbb R^{n}$ with
Let $\psi _{t}(x):=t^{-n}\psi (x/t)$ . Then $f\in Q_{v/2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ with $\nu \in (0,\min \{ 2, n\})$ if and only if
Remark 5.3 In [Reference Dafni and Xiao11], $\psi $ is defined as a function satisfying
(see [Reference Dafni and Xiao11, Lemma 3.1]). In fact, Theorem 5.2 also holds for the functions $\psi $ which satisfy (5.1) (see [Reference Xiao41, p. 228]).
As an application of Theorem 5.2, we can obtain the following result.
Theorem 5.4 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $t>0$ , $f\in Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ and $\nu \in (0,\min \{ 2, n\})$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. There hold the following local Sobolev-type trace inequalities
and
Proof Let
and $C^i_{\alpha ,\beta ,m}$ is a constant depend on $i,\alpha ,m$ . It can be deduced from the Fourier transform that
which implies that
where
By (5.4), we can get
It follows from Proposition 2.10 that for $\alpha>n+m,$
which gives $|\psi _{1}(x)|\lesssim (1+|x|)^{-n-1}$ and $\psi _{1}\in L^{1}(\mathbb R^{n})$ . Then Theorem 5.2 implies
Since $Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ is a subspace of $BMO(\mathbb R^{n})$ , we have $\|f\|_{BMO(\mathbb {R}^{n})}\leq \|f\|_{Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^{n})}$ . We can deduce from the equivalent norm:
that
which proves (5.2).
Now, we prove (5.3). Denote
It can be deduced from the Fourier transform that
which implies that
where
By (5.6), it is easy to verify that
Also, it follows from Proposition 2.11 that for $\alpha>n+m$ ,
which gives $|\psi _{2}(x)|\lesssim (1+|x|)^{-n-1}$ and $\psi _{2}\in L^{1}(\mathbb R^{n})$ . Theorem 5.2 implies
Similarly, using (5.5), we have
which proves (5.3).
Remark 5.5 Let $m\in \mathbb {Z}_+$ , $\alpha>n+m$ , $\beta \in (0,1] $ , $s>0$ , $f\in Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb R^{n})$ and ${\nu \in (0,\min \{2, n\})}$ . For $(x,t)\in \mathbb R^{n}\times (0,\infty )$ , denote by $u(x,t)=G_{t}^{\alpha ,\beta }*f(x)$ the time-space fractional extension of f. There hold the local Sobolev-type trace inequalities
and
In fact, by $s=t^{\alpha /\beta }$ and (3.19), we get
and