A unified approach to improved Lp Hardy inequalities with best constants

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 356, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2169-2196

  Barbatis, G ^a   Filippas, S ^b   Tertikas, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Inst of Appl and Compl Math   (Greece)

Author keywords

Best constants; Distance function; Hardy inequalities; Weighted norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442659248     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03389-0     Document Type: Article

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