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Hardy type inequalities in higher dimensions with explicit estimate of constants
F. G. Avkhadiev Kazan State University
Abstract:
Let
$\Omega$ be an open set in
$\mathbb R^n$ such that
$\Omega\ne\mathbb R^n$. For
$1\le p<\infty$,
$1<s<\infty$ and
$\delta=\operatorname{dist}(x,\partial\Omega)$ we estimate the Hardy constant
$$
c_p(s,\Omega)=\sup\{\|f/\delta^{s/p}\|_{L^p(\Omega)}:f\in C_0^\infty(\Omega),\ \|(\nabla f)/\delta^{s/p-1}\|_{L^p(\Omega)}=1\}
$$
and some related quantities.
For open sets
$\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$ we prove the following bilateral estimates
$$
\min\{2,p\}M_0(\Omega)\le c_p(2,\Omega)\le 2p(\pi M_0(\Omega)+a_0)^2, \quad a_0=4.38,
$$
where
$M_0(\Omega)$ is the geometrical parameter defined as the maximum modulus of ring domains in
$\Omega$ with center on
$\partial\Omega$. Since the condition
$M_0 (\Omega)<\infty$ means the uniformly perfectness of
$\partial\Omega$, these estimates give a direct proof of the following Ancona–Pommerenke theorem:
$c_2(2,\Omega)$ is finite if and only if the boundary set
$\partial\Omega$ is uniformly perfect (see [2], [22] and [40]).
Moreover, we obtain the following direct extension of the one dimensional Hardy inequality to the case
$n\ge 2$: if
$s>n$, then for arbitrary open sets
$\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ (
$\Omega\ne\mathbb R^n$) and any
$p\in[1,\infty)$ the sharp inequality
$c_p(s,\Omega)\le p/(s-n)$ is valid. This gives a solution of a known problem due to J. L. Lewis [31] and A. Wannebo [44].
Estimates of constants in certain other Hardy and Rellich type inequalities are also considered. In particular, we obtain an improved version of a Hardy type inequality by H. Brezis and M. Marcus [13] for convex domains and give its generalizations.
Keywords:
Hardy type inequalities, distance to the boundary, uniformly perfect sets, Rellich type inequalities. Received: 09.03.2006
Language: English