# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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

## An extended discrete Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality

 1 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.
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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##### References:
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