A generalized radial integration by parts formula and its applications to Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new integration by parts formula to generalize Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities for a broader range of weights and smooth functions.

Contribution

A new radial integration by parts formula is developed, extending CKN inequalities to smooth functions on Lipschitz domains with explicit bounds.

Findings

A generalized radial integration by parts formula is derived for broader weights and exponents.

The extended CKN inequalities apply to smooth functions on bounded domains with Lipschitz boundaries.

Explicit upper bounds on optimal constants are established, independent of domain geometry.

Abstract

This paper builds upon the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg (CKN) weighted interpolation inequalities, which are fundamental tools in partial differential equations and geometric analysis for establishing relationships between functions and their gradients when power weights are involved. Our work broadens the scope of these inequalities by generalizing them to encompass a broader class of radial weights and exponents. Additionally, we extend the application of these inequalities to the class \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$C^{\infty }({\overline{\Omega }})$$\end{document}C∞(Ω¯) functions. The resulting generalized CKN-type inequalities offer explicit upper bounds on the optimal constants, independent of the domain’s geometry, consistent with the scaling invariant nature of the inequalities.