Improved interpolation inequalities on the sphere

Jean Dolbeault; Maria J. Esteban; Michał Kowalczyk; Michael Loss

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2014.7.695

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2014, Volume 7, Issue 4: 695-724. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2014.7.695

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Improved interpolation inequalities on the sphere

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Ceremade (UMR CNRS 7534), Université Paris Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris, Cédex 16
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CEREMADE - UMR C.N.R.S. 7534, Université Paris IX-Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedex 16
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Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (UMI 2807 CNRS), Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170 Correo 3, Santiago
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School of Mathematics, Skiles Building, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332-0160

Received: September 2013

Revised: December 2013

Published: August 2014

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This paper contains a review of available methods for establishing improved interpolation inequalities on the sphere for subcritical exponents. Pushing further these techniques we also establish some new results, clarify the range of applicability of the various existing methods and state several explicit estimates.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 26D10, 46E35, 58E35.

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