Sharp Subcritical and Critical Trudinger-Moser Inequalities on $\mathbb {R}^{2}$ and their Extremal Functions

Abstract

In this paper, we study on $\mathbb {R}^{2}$ some new types of the sharp subcritical and critical Trudinger-Moser inequality that have close connections to the study of the optimizers for the classical Trudinger-Moser inequalities. For instance, one of our results can be read as follows: Let 0 ≤ β < 2, p ≥ 0, α ≥ 0. Then

$$\sup_{\left\Vert \nabla u\right\Vert_{2}^{2}+\left\Vert u\right\Vert_{2} ^{2}\leq1}\left\Vert u\right\Vert_{2}^{p}{\int}_{\mathbb{R}^{2}}\exp\left( \alpha\left( 1-\frac{\beta}{2}\right) \left\vert u\right\vert^{2}\right) \left\vert u\right\vert^{2}\frac{dx}{\left\vert x\right\vert^{\beta}}<\infty $$

if and only if α < 4π or α = 4π, p ≥ 2. The attainability and inattainability of these sharp inequalties will be also investigated using a new approach, namely the relations between the supremums of the sharp subcritical and critical ones. This new method will enable us to compute explicitly the supremums of the subcritical Trudinger-Moser inequalities in some special cases. Also, a version of Concentration-compactness principle in the spirit of Lions ( Lions, I. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 1(1) 145–01 1985) will also be studied.