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A sharp form of the Moser-Trudinger inequality on a compact Riemannian surface

Author(s): Yunyan Yang
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 5761-5776.
MSC (2000): Primary 58J05; Secondary 46E35
Posted: July 3, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2336305
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Abstract: In this paper, a sharp form of the Moser-Trudinger inequality is established on a compact Riemannian surface via the method of blow-up analysis, and the existence of an extremal function for such an inequality is proved.

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