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Sharp Sobolev inequalities with lower order remainder terms

Author(s): Olivier Druet; Emmanuel Hebey; Michel Vaugon
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), 269-289.
MSC (2000): Primary 58E35
Posted: September 15, 2000
MathSciNet review: 1783789
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Abstract: Given a smooth compact Riemannian -manifold , this paper deals with the sharp Sobolev inequality corresponding to the embedding of in $L^{2n/(n-2)}(M)$ where the remainder term is replaced by a lower order term.

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