Generalized sharp Hardy type and Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

We prove generalized Hardy's type inequalities with sharp constants and Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities with sharp constants on Riemannian manifolds $M$. When the manifold is Euclidean space we recapture the sharp Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality. By using a double limiting argument, we obtain an inequality that implies a sharp Hardy's inequality, for functions with compact support on the manifold $M $ (that is, not necessarily on a punctured manifold $ M \backslash \{ x_0 \} $ where $x_0$ is a fixed point in $M$). Some topological and geometric applications are discussed.