Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality and existence of the extremal functions with extended kernel

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality with extended kernel (0.1) \begin{equation} \int_{\mathbb{R}_+^{n}}\int_{\partial\mathbb{R}^{n}_+} \frac{x_n^{\beta}}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}}f(y)g(x) {\rm d}y{\rm d}x\leq C_{n,\alpha,\beta,p}\|f\|_{L^{p}(\partial\mathbb{R}_+^{n})} \|g\|_{L^{q'}(\mathbb{R}_+^{n})}, \end{equation} for any nonnegative functions $f\in L^{p}(\partial \mathbb {R}_+^{n})$ , $g\in L^{q'}(\mathbb {R}_+^{n})$ and $p,\,\ q'\in (1,\,\infty )$ , $\beta \geq 0$ , $\alpha +\beta >1$ such that $\frac {n-1}{n}\frac {1}{p}+\frac {1}{q'}-\frac {\alpha +\beta -1}{n}=1$ . We prove the existence of all extremal functions for (0.1). We show that if $f$ and $g$ are extremal functions for (0.1) then both of $f$ and $g$ are radially decreasing. Moreover, we apply the regularity lifting method to obtain the smoothness of extremal functions. Finally, we derive the sufficient and necessary condition of the existence of any nonnegative nontrivial solutions for the Euler–Lagrange equations by using Pohozaev identity.