The minimizing problem involving p--Laplacian and Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev upper critical exponent

TL;DR

This paper investigates a variational problem involving the p-Laplacian and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev critical exponent, proving existence of extremal functions with symmetry properties and providing estimates for these extremals.

Contribution

It establishes the existence of radially symmetric extremal functions for a Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev critical problem involving the p-Laplacian, using refined inequalities.

Findings

Existence of extremal functions achieved by radially symmetric, nonincreasing, nonnegative functions.

Refined Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality used to prove attainment.

Provided estimates for the extremal functions.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the minimizing problem: $$ S_{p,1,\alpha,\mu}:= \inf_{u\in W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^{N})\setminus\{0\}} \frac{ \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}|\nabla u|^{p}\mathrm{d}x - \mu \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}} \frac{|u|^{p}}{|x|^{p}} \mathrm{d}x} {\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}} \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}} \frac{|u(x)|^{p^{*}_{\alpha}}|u(y)|^{p^{*}_{\alpha}}}{|x-y|^{\alpha}} \mathrm{d}x \mathrm{d}y \right)^{\frac{p}{2\cdot p^{*}_{\alpha}}}}, $$ where $N\geqslant3$, $p\in(1,N)$, $\mu\in \left[ 0, \left( \frac{N-p}{p} \right)^{p} \right)$, $\alpha\in(0,N)$ and $p^{*}_{\alpha}= \frac{p}{2}\left(\frac{2N-\alpha}{N-p}\right)$ is the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev upper critical exponent. Firstly, by using refinement of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, we prove that $S_{p,1,\alpha,\mu}$ is achieved in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ by a radially symmetric, nonincreasing and nonnegative function. Secondly, we give a estimation of extremal function.