We develop a new method suitable for establishing lower bounds on the ball measure of noncompactness of operators acting between considerably general quasinormed function spaces. This new method removes some of the restrictions oft-presented in the previous work. Most notably, the target function space need not be disjointly superadditive nor equipped with a norm. Instead, a property that is far more often at our disposal is exploited—namely the absolute continuity of the target quasinorm.

We use this new method to prove that limiting Sobolev embeddings into spaces of Brezis–Wainger type are so-called maximally noncompact, i.e. their ball measure of noncompactness is the worst possible.

This article aims to establish fractional Sobolev trace inequalities, logarithmic Sobolev trace inequalities, and Hardy trace inequalities associated with time-space fractional heat equations. The key steps involve establishing dedicated estimates for the fractional heat kernel, regularity estimates for the solution of the time-space fractional equations, and characterizing the norm of $\dot {W}^{\nu /2}_p(\mathbb {R}^n)$ in terms of the solution $u(x,t)$. Additionally, fractional logarithmic Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities are proven, leading to $L^p-$logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for $\dot {W}^{\nu /2}_{p}(\mathbb R^{n})$. As a byproduct, Sobolev affine trace-type inequalities for $\dot {H}^{-\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ and local Sobolev-type trace inequalities for $Q_{\nu /2}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ are established.

We establish a new improvement of the classical Lp-Hardy inequality on the multidimensional Euclidean space in the supercritical case. Recently, in [14], there has been a new kind of development of the one-dimensional Hardy inequality. Using some radialisation techniques of functions and then exploiting symmetric decreasing rearrangement arguments on the real line, the new multidimensional version of the Hardy inequality is given. Some consequences are also discussed.

In this paper, we prove some weighted sharp inequalities of Trudinger–Moser type. The weights considered here have a logarithmic growth. These inequalities are completely new and are established in some new Sobolev spaces where the norm is a mixture of the norm of the gradient in two different Lebesgue spaces. This fact allowed us to prove a very interesting result of sharpness for the case of doubly exponential growth at infinity. Some improvements of these inequalities for the weakly convergent sequences are also proved using a version of the Concentration-Compactness principle of P.L. Lions. Taking profit of these inequalities, we treat in the last part of this work some elliptic quasilinear equation involving the weighted $(N,q)-$Laplacian operator where $1 < q < N$ and a nonlinearities enjoying a new type of exponential growth condition at infinity.

In this paper, we establish a new fractional interpolation inequality for radially symmetric measurable functions on the whole space $R^{N}$ and a new compact imbedding result about radially symmetric measurable functions. We show that the best constant in the new interpolation inequality can be achieved by a radially symmetric function. As applications of this compactness result, we study the existence of ground states of the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation on the whole space $R^{N}$. We also prove an existence result of standing waves and prove their orbital stability.

We provide examples of infinitesimally Hilbertian, rectifiable, Ahlfors regular metric measure spaces having pmGH-tangents that are not infinitesimally Hilbertian.

In this paper, we develop an extremely simple method to establish the sharpened Adams-type inequalities on higher-order Sobolev spaces $W^{m,\frac {n}{m}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ in the entire space $\mathbb {R}^n$ , which can be stated as follows: Given $\Phi \left ( t\right ) =e^{t}-\underset {j=0}{\overset {n-2}{\sum }} \frac {t^{j}}{j!}$ and the Adams sharp constant $\beta _{n,m}$ . Then,

$$ \begin{align*}\sup_{\|\nabla^mu\|_{\frac{n}{m}}^{\frac{n}{m}}+\|u\|_{\frac{n}{m}}^{\frac{n}{m}}\leq1}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\Phi\Big(\beta_{n,m} (1+\alpha \|u\|_{\frac{n}{m}}^{\frac{n}{m}} )^{\frac{m}{n-m}}|u|^{\frac{n}{n-m}}\Big)dx<\infty, \end{align*} $$

$0<\alpha <1$

$\alpha $

$\alpha \ge 1$

Our argument avoids applying the complicated blow-up analysis often used in the literature to deal with such sharpened inequalities.

For $1< p<\infty$ we prove an $L^{p}$-version of the generalized trace-free Korn inequality for incompatible tensor fields $P$ in $W^{1,p}_0(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$. More precisely, let $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^{3}$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain. Then there exists a constant $c>0$ such that

\[ \lVert{ P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\leq c\,\left(\lVert{\operatorname{dev} \operatorname{sym} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})} + \lVert{ \operatorname{dev} \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\right) \]

$P\in W^{1,p}_0(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$

$P\in W^{1,p} (\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$

$P\times \nu =0$

$\partial \Omega$

$\nu$

$\partial \Omega$

$\operatorname {dev} P : = P -\frac 13 \operatorname {tr}(P) {\cdot } {\mathbb {1}}$

$P$

\begin{align*} &\lVert{ P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}+\lVert{ \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\\ &\quad\leq c\,\left(\lVert{P}\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})} + \lVert{ \operatorname{dev} \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\right) \end{align*}

$P\in W^{1,p}(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$

$\Gamma \subseteq \partial \Omega$

Weight criteria for embedding of the weighted Sobolev–Lorentz spaces to the weighted Besov–Lorentz spaces built upon certain mixed norms and iterated rearrangement are investigated. This gives an improvement of some known Sobolev embedding. We achieve the result based on different norm inequalities for the weighted Besov–Lorentz spaces defined in some mixed norms.

The main result is that the ellipticity and the Fredholm property of a $\Psi $ DO acting on Sobolev spaces in the Weyl-Hörmander calculus are equivalent when the Hörmander metric is geodesically temperate and its associated Planck function vanishes at infinity. The proof is essentially related to the following result that we prove for geodesically temperate Hörmander metrics: If $\lambda \mapsto a_{\lambda }\in S(1,g)$ is a $\mathcal {C}^N$ , $0\leq N\leq \infty $ , map such that each $a_{\lambda }^w$ is invertible on $L^2$ , then the mapping $\lambda \mapsto b_{\lambda }\in S(1,g)$ , where $b_{\lambda }^w$ is the inverse of $a_{\lambda }^w$ , is again of class $\mathcal {C}^N$ . Additionally, assuming also the strong uncertainty principle for the metric, we obtain a Fedosov-Hörmander formula for the index of an elliptic operator. At the very end, we give an example to illustrate our main result.

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the entire solutions of the homogeneous Helmholtz equation (solutions in ℝd) arising from the Fourier extension operator of distributions in Sobolev spaces of the sphere $H^\alpha (\mathbb {S}^{d-1}),$ with α ∈ ℝ. We present two characterizations. The first one is written in terms of certain L2-weighted norms involving real powers of the spherical Laplacian. The second one is in the spirit of the classical description of the Herglotz wave functions given by P. Hartman and C. Wilcox. For α > 0 this characterization involves a multivariable square function evaluated in a vector of entire solutions of the Helmholtz equation, while for α < 0 it is written in terms of an spherical integral operator acting as a fractional integration operator. Finally, we also characterize all the solutions that are the Fourier extension operator of distributions in the sphere.

We set up the sharp Trudinger–Moser inequality under arbitrary norms. Using this result and the $L_{p}$ Busemann-Petty centroid inequality, we will provide a new proof to the sharp affine Trudinger–Moser inequalities without using the well-known affine Pólya–Szegö inequality.

The asymptotic behavior of solutions to a family of Dirichlet boundary value problems, involving differential operators in divergence form, on a domain equipped with a Finsler metric is investigated. Solutions are shown to converge uniformly to the distance function to the boundary of the domain, which takes into account the Finsler norm involved in the equation. This implies that a well-known result in the analysis of problems modeling torsional creep continues to hold in this more general setting.

In this paper, we prove contact Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities in Heisenberg groups $\mathbb{H}^{n}$, where the word ‘contact’ is meant to stress that de Rham’s exterior differential is replaced by the exterior differential of the so-called Rumin complex $(E_{0}^{\bullet },d_{c})$, which recovers the scale invariance under the group dilations associated with the stratification of the Lie algebra of $\mathbb{H}^{n}$. In addition, we construct smoothing operators for differential forms on sub-Riemannian contact manifolds with bounded geometry, which act trivially on cohomology. For instance, this allows us to replace a closed form, up to adding a controlled exact form, with a much more regular differential form.

We give Trudinger-type inequalities for Riesz potentials of functions in Orlicz-Morrey spaces of an integral form over non-doubling metric measure spaces. Our results are new even for the doubling metric measure setting. In particular, our results improve and extend the previous results in Morrey spaces of an integral form in the Euclidean case.

We completely characterize the validity of the inequality $\| u \|_{Y(\mathbb R)} \leq C \| \nabla^{m} u \|_{X(\mathbb R)}$, where X and Y are rearrangement-invariant spaces, by reducing it to a considerably simpler one-dimensional inequality. Furthermore, we fully describe the optimal rearrangement-invariant space on either side of the inequality when the space on the other side is fixed. We also solve the same problem within the environment in which the competing spaces are Orlicz spaces. A variety of examples involving customary function spaces suitable for applications is also provided.

We introduce the notion of a distributional $k$-Hessian ($k=2,\ldots ,n$) associated with fractional Sobolev functions on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$, a smooth bounded open subset in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We show that the distributional $k$-Hessian is weakly continuous on the fractional Sobolev space $W^{2-2/k,k}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ and that the weak continuity result is optimal, that is, the distributional $k$-Hessian is well defined in $W^{s,p}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ if and only if $W^{s,p}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})\subseteq W^{2-2/k,k}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$.

Our aim in this paper is to establish a generalization of Sobolev’s inequality for Riesz potentials $J_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}(\cdot )}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}}f$ of functions $f$ in Musielak–Orlicz–Morrey spaces $L^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7},\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}(X)$. As a corollary we obtain Sobolev’s inequality for double phase functionals with variable exponents.

The main result of this paper is the following: any weighted Riemannian manifold $(M,g,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$, i.e., a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ endowed with a generic non-negative Radon measure $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$, is infinitesimally Hilbertian, which means that its associated Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(M,g,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ is a Hilbert space.

We actually prove a stronger result: the abstract tangent module (à la Gigli) associated with any weighted reversible Finsler manifold $(M,F,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ can be isometrically embedded into the space of all measurable sections of the tangent bundle of $M$ that are $2$-integrable with respect to $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$.

By following the same approach, we also prove that all weighted (sub-Riemannian) Carnot groups are infinitesimally Hilbertian.

Our aim in this paper is to establish a generalization of Sobolev’s inequality for Riesz potentials $I_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}(\,\cdot \,),\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}f$ of order $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}(\,\cdot \,)$ with $f\in L^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F7},\unicode[STIX]{x1D705},\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}}(X)$ over bounded non-doubling metric measure spaces. As a corollary we obtain Sobolev’s inequality for double phase functionals with variable exponents.