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May  2014, 34(5): 1951-1959. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1951

An extended discrete Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality

Ze Cheng 1, and  Congming Li 1,

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Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, United States, United States

Received  May 2013 Revised  July 2013 Published  October 2013

Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev (HLS) Inequality fails in the ``critical'' case: $μ=n$. However, for discrete HLS, we can derive a finite form of HLS inequality with logarithm correction for a critical case: $μ=n$ and $p=q$, by limiting the inequality on a finite domain. The best constant in the inequality and its corresponding solution, the optimizer, are studied. First, we obtain a sharp estimate for the best constant. Then for the optimizer, we prove the uniqueness and a symmetry property. This is achieved by proving that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation has a unique nontrivial nonnegative critical point. Also, by using a discrete version of maximum principle, we prove certain monotonicity of this optimizer.
Keywords: HLS inequality, Euler-Lagrange equation., maximum principle.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A2.
Citation: Ze Cheng, Congming Li. An extended discrete Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2014, 34 (5) : 1951-1959. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1951
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W. Chen, C. Jin, C. Li and J. Lim, Weighted Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Inequalities and Systems of Integral Equations,, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, (2005), 164.   Google Scholar

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W. Chen and C. Li, An integral system and the Lane-Emden conjecture,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 24 (2009), 1167.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.24.1167.  Google Scholar

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W. Chen and C. Li, Classification of solutions of some nonlinear elliptic equations,, Duke Math. J., 63 (1991), 615.  doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-91-06325-8.  Google Scholar

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W. Chen and C. Li, Indefinite elliptic problems in a domain,, Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems, 3 (1997), 333.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.1997.3.333.  Google Scholar

[5]

W. Chen and C. Li, Radial symmetry of solutions for some integral systems of Wolff type,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 30 (2011), 1083.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.1083.  Google Scholar

[6]

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[7]

W. Chen and C. Li, The best constant in some weighted Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality,, Proc. AMS, 136 (2008), 955.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09232-5.  Google Scholar

[8]

W. Chen, C. Li and B. Ou, Classification of solutions for a system of integral equations,, Commun. in Partial Differential Equations, 30 (2005), 59.  doi: 10.1081/PDE-200044445.  Google Scholar

[9]

W. Chen, C. Li and B. Ou, Qualitative properties of solutions for an integral equation,, Disc. & Cont. Dynamics Sys., 12 (2005), 347.   Google Scholar

[10]

W. Chen, C. Li and B. Ou, Classification of solutions for an integral equation,, Comm. Pure and Appl. Math., 59 (2006), 330.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.20116.  Google Scholar

[11]

L. E. Fraenkel, An introduction to maximum principles and symmetry in elliptic problems,, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, (2000).  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511569203.  Google Scholar

[12]

B. Gidas, W. Ni and L. Nirenberg, Symmetry of Positive Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations in $R^n$,, Mathematical Analysis and Applications, (1981), 369.   Google Scholar

[13]

F. Hang, On the integral systems related to Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality,, Math Res Lett, 14 (2007), 373.  doi: 10.4310/MRL.2007.v14.n3.a2.  Google Scholar

[14]

C. Jin and C. Li, Symmetry of solutions to some systems of integral equations,, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 134 (2006), 1661.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08411-X.  Google Scholar

[15]

G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood and G. Pólya, Inequalities,, Cambridge at the University Press, (1952).   Google Scholar

[16]

J. Kigami, Analysis on Fractals,, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, (2001).  doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511470943.  Google Scholar

[17]

Y. Lei, C. Li and C. Ma, Asymptotic radial symmetry and growth estimates of positive solutions to weighted Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev system of integral equations,, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 45 (2012), 43.  doi: 10.1007/s00526-011-0450-7.  Google Scholar

[18]

Y. Lei, C. Li and C. Ma, Decay estimation for positive solutions of a $\gamma$-Laplace equation,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 30 (2011), 547.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.547.  Google Scholar

[19]

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[20]

C. Li and J. Villavert, An extension of the Hardy-Littlewood-Pólya inequality,, Acta Mathematica Scientia, 31 (2011), 2285.  doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60400-1.  Google Scholar

[21]

E. Lieb, Sharp constants in the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev and related inequalities,, Ann. of Math., 118 (1983), 349.  doi: 10.2307/2007032.  Google Scholar

[22]

O. Perron, Zur Theorie der Matrices,, Mathematische Annalen, 64 (1907), 248.  doi: 10.1007/BF01449896.  Google Scholar

[23]

E. B. Stein and G. Weiss, Fractional integrals on n-dimensional Euclidean space,, J. Math. Mech., 7 (1958), 503.  doi: 10.1512/iumj.1958.7.57030.  Google Scholar

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