of the

American Mathematical Society

Number 761

The AB Program in Geometric

Analysis: Sharp Sobolev
Inequalities and Related Problems
Olivier Druet
Emmanuel Hebey

November 2002 Volume 160 Number 761 (third of 5 numbers) ISSN 0065-9266

American Mathematical Society

Providence, Rhode Island

Contents
Chapter 1. Euclidean background

Chapter 2.

Statement of the AB program

Chapter 3. Some historical motivations

Chapter
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.

4. The /^-inequality - Part I

Sharp inequalities with respect to the A-constant
Sobolev-Poincare type inequalities
Sharp inequalities with respect to the /^-constant

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Chapter 5. The //^-inequality - Part II

5.1. Sharp inequalities with respect to the A-constant
5.2. Conformal sphere
5.3. Subextremal functions and asymptotic studies
5.4. Extremal functions for the A-part of the AB program
5.5. Critical functions versus best constants
5.6. Low dimension
5.7. The 5-part of the AB program

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Chapter 6. PDE Methods

6.1. Weak pointwise estimates
6.2. Strong pointwise estimates
6.3. Exact asymptotic profile

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Chapter 7. The isoperimetric inequality

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Chapter 8. The /ff-inequalities, 1 < p < dimM

8.1. Sharp inequalities with respect to the A-constant
8.2. Geometric rigidity attached to the first constant
8.3. A scale in powers of sharp Sobolev inequalities
8.4. Extremal functions for the A-part of the AB program
8.5. Sharp inequalities with respect to the S-constant

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Bibliography

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