Remainder terms of a nonlocal Sobolev inequality1

Abstract

In this note we study a nonlocal version of the Sobolev inequality \begin{equation*} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|\nabla u|^2 dx \geq S_{HLS}\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\big(|x|^{-α} \ast u^{2_α^{\ast}}\big)u^{2_α^{\ast}} dx\right)^{\frac{1}{2_α^{\ast}}}, \quad \forall u\in \mathcal{D}^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{equation*} where $S_{HLS}$ is the best constant, $\ast$ denotes the standard convolution and ${\mathcal{D}}^{1,2}({\mathbb{R}}^N)$ denotes the classical Sobolev space with respect to the norm $\Vert u{\Vert }_{{\mathcal{D}}^{1,2}({\mathbb{R}}^N)}=\Vert \nabla u{\Vert }_{L^2({\mathbb{R}}^N)}$. By using the nondegeneracy property of the extremal functions, we prove that the existence of the gradient type remainder term and a reminder term in the weak $L^{\frac{N}{N-2}}$-norm of above inequality for all $0<\alpha <N$.

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