Best constants and existence of maximizers for weighted Moser-Trudinger inequalities

Mengxia Dong, Guozhen Lu

Published 2015-04-19Version 1

In this paper, we will establish the best constants for certain classes of weighted Moser-Trudinger inequalities on the entire Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^N$. We will also prove the existence of maximizers of these sharp weighted inequalities. The class of functions considered here are not necessarily spherically symmetric. Our inequality in Theorem 1.1 improves the earlier one where such type of inequality was only considered for spherically symmetric functions by M. Ishiwata, M. Nakamura, H. Wadade in \cite{INW} (except in the case $s\not=0$). Since $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\Phi_N(\alpha|u|^{N/(N-1)})\frac{dx}{|x|^t}\le \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}e^{\alpha|u|^{N/(N-1)}}|u|^N\frac{dx}{|x|^t}$, our inequality in Theorem 1.2 is stronger than the inequality in Theorem 1.1. We note that it suffices for us to prove the above inequalities for all functions not necessarily radially symmetric when $s=t$ by the well-known Caffareli-Kokn-Nirenberg inequalities \cite{CKN}.