Special Session 58: 

Limit of Sobolev Inequalities

Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Princeton University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Sun-Yung A. Chang and Fang Wang
Abstract:
We derive the Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequalities on the 2-sphere and the 4-sphere as the limiting cases of the fractional power Sobolev inequalities on the same spaces, and justify our approach as the dimensional continuation argument initiated by Thomas P. Branson.