Best constants for Moser-Trudinger inequalities on the Heisenberg group

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1567-1591

  Cohn, William S ^a   Lu, Guozhen ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best constants; Heisenberg group; Moser Trudinger inequalities; Sobolev inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039248898     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2001.50.2138     Document Type: Article

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