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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
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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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Additional Information:

Yunyan Yang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Information School, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, People's Republic of China
Email: yunyan_yang2002@yahoo.com.cn

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04272-9
PII: S 0002-9947(07)04272-9
Keywords: Moser-Trudinger inequality, blow-up analysis, extremal function
Received by editor(s): June 7, 2005
Posted: July 3, 2007
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
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