On certain generalizations of the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality and their applications to capacitary estimates and isoperimetric inequalities

Abstract

We derive the inequality

$$\int_\mathbb{R}M(|f'(x)|h(f(x))) dx\leq C(M,h)\int_\mathbb{R}M\left({\sqrt{|f''(x)\tau_h(f(x))|}\cdot h(f(x))}\right)dx$$

with a constant C(M, h) independent of f, where f belongs locally to the Sobolev space ${W^{2,1}(\mathbb{R})}$ and f′ has compact support. Here M is an arbitrary N-function satisfying certain assumptions, h is a given function and ${\tau_h(\cdot)}$ is its given transform independent of M. When M(λ) =  λ^p and ${h \equiv 1}$ we retrieve the well-known inequality ${\int_\mathbb{R}|f'(x)|^{p}dx \leq (\sqrt{p - 1})^{p}\int_\mathbb{R}(\sqrt{|f''(x) f(x)|})^{p}dx}$. We apply our inequality to obtain some generalizations of capacitary estimates and isoperimetric inequalities due to Maz’ya (1985).