A Trudinger-Moser inequality under a refined constraint in fractional dimensions and extremal functions
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A Trudinger-Moser inequality with Tintarev constraint holds and attains its supremum in fractional dimensions.
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Core claim
We establish a Trudinger-Moser type inequality with a Tintarev-type constraint in fractional-dimensional spaces and prove the existence of maximizers in the critical regime. Our results provide a refinement of those in Calc. Var. 52 (2015), 125-163 in the setting of fractional-dimensional spaces, as well as of those in Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 54 (2018), 237-256 for classical Sobolev spaces.
What carries the argument
The Tintarev-type constraint, a refined restriction imposed on functions in the fractional Sobolev space that restores the compactness required for the variational problem to attain its supremum.
Load-bearing premise
The fractional-dimensional Sobolev spaces possess the embeddings and compactness properties needed under the refined constraint so that the supremum is attained.
What would settle it
A sequence of functions obeying the Tintarev constraint whose associated Trudinger-Moser functional values exceed the claimed bound, or a maximizing sequence that fails to converge strongly to any limit function.
read the original abstract
We establish a Trudinger-Moser type inequality with a Tintarev-type constraint in fractional-dimensional spaces and prove the existence of maximizers in the critical regime. Our results provide a refinement of those in (Calc. Var. 52 (2015), 125-163) in the setting of fractional-dimensional spaces, as well as of those in (Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 54 (2018), 237-256) for classical Sobolev spaces.
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Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript establishes a Trudinger-Moser type inequality incorporating a Tintarev-type constraint in fractional-dimensional spaces and proves the existence of maximizers in the critical regime. It refines earlier results from Calc. Var. 52 (2015) and Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 54 (2018) by adapting the inequality and compactness arguments to the fractional setting.
Significance. If the result holds, the work is significant for extending constrained Trudinger-Moser theory to fractional dimensions, where the refined constraint aids in obtaining compactness via an adapted profile decomposition. The self-contained proof using carefully modified concentration-compactness tools, without reduction to classical cases, strengthens the contribution and supports applications to fractional PDEs.
minor comments (2)
- [Introduction] In the introduction, the precise range of the fractional dimension parameter could be stated explicitly when comparing to the cited works in Calc. Var. 52 (2015) and Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 54 (2018).
- [Preliminaries] Notation for the Orlicz space and the refined constraint should be introduced with a dedicated preliminary subsection to improve readability for readers unfamiliar with the fractional setting.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our manuscript and the recommendation to accept it. We appreciate the recognition of the significance of extending the constrained Trudinger-Moser theory to fractional dimensions.
Circularity Check
No significant circularity detected
full rationale
The paper derives the Trudinger-Moser inequality under the refined Tintarev-type constraint in fractional dimensions via a profile decomposition adapted to the constraint, combined with standard fractional Sobolev embeddings into Orlicz spaces and compactness arguments. These steps rely on modified concentration-compactness tools that are independent of the target result and do not reduce by construction to fitted inputs, self-definitions, or load-bearing self-citations. The cited prior works (Calc. Var. 52 (2015) and Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 54 (2018)) are external references whose results are refined rather than presupposed as uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from the same authors. The central existence of maximizers follows from the variational analysis without circular reduction.
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- domain assumption Fractional Sobolev spaces satisfy the embeddings and compactness properties needed for the variational problem
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We establish a Trudinger-Moser type inequality with a Tintarev-type constraint in fractional-dimensional spaces... (1.9) α-p+1=0 ... μ_{α,θ}=(θ+1)ω_α^{1/α}
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sup ... H_ν(u)≤1 ∫ e^{μ_{α,θ}|u|^{p/(p-1)}} dλ_θ <∞ ... attained
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