Stability for Critical Points of the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev Inequality and a Dual Stability Framework

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Autori principali: Chen, Lu, Lu, Guozhen, Tang, Hanli
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author Chen, Lu
Lu, Guozhen
Tang, Hanli
author_facet Chen, Lu
Lu, Guozhen
Tang, Hanli
contents Although quantitative stability for critical points of the Sobolev and fractional Sobolev inequalities has been extensively studied, the corresponding stability theory for critical points of the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev (HLS) inequality remains largely unexplored. A major difficulty is that the natural stability problem for HLS critical points involves a non-Hilbertian distance, so the classical orthogonal decomposition methods used in Hilbert-space settings are no longer available. In this paper, we develop a weak-decomposition--strong-stability method tailored to the stability structure of HLS critical points and establish the corresponding stability inequality. Our approach also yields an explicit lower bound for the stability of Palais--Smale sequences of the HLS integral equation. To the best of our knowledge, this appears to be the first quantitative stability result for Palais--Smale sequences of a variational functional measured in a non-Hilbertian distance. We further introduce a duality framework connecting Struwe-type decompositions and stability inequalities for critical points of the Sobolev inequality with their HLS counterparts. As a consequence, we derive Struwe-type decomposition and stability results for critical points of the fractional Sobolev inequality for general functions, thereby removing the nonnegativity assumption imposed in [26].
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spellingShingle Stability for Critical Points of the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev Inequality and a Dual Stability Framework
Chen, Lu
Lu, Guozhen
Tang, Hanli
Analysis of PDEs
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Although quantitative stability for critical points of the Sobolev and fractional Sobolev inequalities has been extensively studied, the corresponding stability theory for critical points of the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev (HLS) inequality remains largely unexplored. A major difficulty is that the natural stability problem for HLS critical points involves a non-Hilbertian distance, so the classical orthogonal decomposition methods used in Hilbert-space settings are no longer available. In this paper, we develop a weak-decomposition--strong-stability method tailored to the stability structure of HLS critical points and establish the corresponding stability inequality. Our approach also yields an explicit lower bound for the stability of Palais--Smale sequences of the HLS integral equation. To the best of our knowledge, this appears to be the first quantitative stability result for Palais--Smale sequences of a variational functional measured in a non-Hilbertian distance. We further introduce a duality framework connecting Struwe-type decompositions and stability inequalities for critical points of the Sobolev inequality with their HLS counterparts. As a consequence, we derive Struwe-type decomposition and stability results for critical points of the fractional Sobolev inequality for general functions, thereby removing the nonnegativity assumption imposed in [26].
title Stability for Critical Points of the Hardy--Littlewood--Sobolev Inequality and a Dual Stability Framework
topic Analysis of PDEs
Classical Analysis and ODEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19288