Monotonicity, continuity and differentiability results for the $L^p$ Hardy constant

Abstract

We consider the $L^p$ Hardy inequality involving the distance to the boundary for a domain in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. We study the dependence on $p$ of the corresponding best constant and we prove monotonicity, continuity and differentiability results. The focus is on non-convex domains in which case such constant is in general not explicitly known.

12 pages; to appear in the Israel Journal of Mathematics