{ "id": "2305.00840", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-04-28T08:29:44.000Z", "updated": "2023-04-28T08:29:44.000Z", "title": "Endpoint Sobolev inequalities for vector fields and cancelling operators", "authors": [ "Jean Van Schaftingen" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.AP", "math.CA", "math.FA" ], "abstract": "The injectively elliptic vector differential operators $A (\\mathrm{D})$ from $V$ to $E$ on $\\mathbb{R}^n$ such that the estimate \\[ \\Vert D^\\ell u\\Vert_{L^{n/(n - \\ell)} (\\mathbb{R}^n)} \\le \\Vert A (\\mathrm{D}) u\\Vert_{L^1 (\\mathbb{R}^n)} \\] holds can be characterized as the operators satisfying a cancellation condition \\[ \\bigcap_{\\xi \\in \\mathbb{R}^n \\setminus \\{0\\}} A (\\xi)[V] = \\{0\\}\\;. \\] These estimates unify existing endpoint Sobolev inequalities for the gradient of scalar functions (Gagliardo and Nirenberg), the deformation operator (Korn-Sobolev inequality by M.J. Strauss) and the Hodge complex (Bourgain and Brezis). Their proof is based on the fact that $A (\\mathrm{D}) u$ lies in the kernel of a cocancelling differential operator.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-04-28T08:29:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "35A23", "26D15", "35E05", "42B30", "42B35", "46E35" ], "keywords": [ "vector fields", "cancelling operators", "existing endpoint sobolev inequalities", "inequality", "injectively elliptic vector differential operators" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }