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Main Authors: Ghosh, Monideep, Karmakar, Debabrata
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19930
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author Ghosh, Monideep
Karmakar, Debabrata
author_facet Ghosh, Monideep
Karmakar, Debabrata
contents In this work, we focus on a recent variant of the Trudinger-Moser-Onofri inequality introduced by S. Y. Alice Chang and Changfeng Gui \cite{CG-2023}: \begin{align*} α\int_{\mathbb{S}^2}|\nabla_{\mathbb{S}^2}u|^2 {\rm d}ω+2 \int_{\mathbb{S}^2} u {\rm d}ω-\frac{1}{2}\ln\left[\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}e^{2u}{\rm d}ω\right)^2-\sum_{i=1}^3\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}ω_i e^{2u}{\rm d} ω\right)^2\right] \geq 0 \end{align*} holds on $H^1(\mathbb{S}^2)$ if and only if $α\geq \frac{2}{3}$. In this regime, the infimum is attained only by trivial functions when $α> \frac{2}{3},$ whereas for the critical value $α= \frac{2}{3}$ nontrivial extremals exist, and Chang-Gui further provided a complete classification of such solutions. Building upon their result, we found a nice conformal invariance of the associated functional. Exploiting this invariance, we were able to characterize the full family of extremals in terms of conformal maps of $\mathbb{S}^2$ and, moreover, establish a sharp quantitative stability result in the gradient norm.
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spellingShingle Quantitative stability for the conformally invariant Chang-Gui inequality on the exponentiation of functions on the sphere
Ghosh, Monideep
Karmakar, Debabrata
Analysis of PDEs
Functional Analysis
In this work, we focus on a recent variant of the Trudinger-Moser-Onofri inequality introduced by S. Y. Alice Chang and Changfeng Gui \cite{CG-2023}: \begin{align*} α\int_{\mathbb{S}^2}|\nabla_{\mathbb{S}^2}u|^2 {\rm d}ω+2 \int_{\mathbb{S}^2} u {\rm d}ω-\frac{1}{2}\ln\left[\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}e^{2u}{\rm d}ω\right)^2-\sum_{i=1}^3\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}ω_i e^{2u}{\rm d} ω\right)^2\right] \geq 0 \end{align*} holds on $H^1(\mathbb{S}^2)$ if and only if $α\geq \frac{2}{3}$. In this regime, the infimum is attained only by trivial functions when $α> \frac{2}{3},$ whereas for the critical value $α= \frac{2}{3}$ nontrivial extremals exist, and Chang-Gui further provided a complete classification of such solutions. Building upon their result, we found a nice conformal invariance of the associated functional. Exploiting this invariance, we were able to characterize the full family of extremals in terms of conformal maps of $\mathbb{S}^2$ and, moreover, establish a sharp quantitative stability result in the gradient norm.
title Quantitative stability for the conformally invariant Chang-Gui inequality on the exponentiation of functions on the sphere
topic Analysis of PDEs
Functional Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19930