COMPETING CONSTANTS FOR THE SOBOLEV TRACE INEQUALITY

  • Received : 2009.05.18
  • Accepted : 2009.05.26
  • Published : 2009.06.30

Abstract

A comparison of constants is given to show that a better constant for the Sobolev trace inequality can be obtained from the conjectured extremal function.

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