A sharp Trudinger-Moser inequality on any bounded and convex planar domain

Abstract

Wang and Ye conjectured in [22]: Let $Ω$ be a regular, bounded and convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. There exists a finite constant $C(Ω)>0$ such that \[ \int_Ωe^{\frac{4πu^{2}}{H_{d}(u)}}dxdy\le C(Ω),\;\;\forall u\in C^{\infty}_{0}(Ω), \] where $H_{d}=\int_Ω|\nabla u|^{2}dxdy-\frac{1}{4}\int_Ω\frac{u^{2}}{d(z,\partialΩ)^{2}}dxdy$ and $d(z,\partialΩ)=\min\limits_{z_{1}\in\partialΩ}|z-z_{1}|$.} The main purpose of this paper is to confirm that this conjecture indeed holds for any bounded and convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ via the Riemann mapping theorem (the smoothness of the boundary of the domain is thus irrelevant). We also give a rearrangement-free argument for the following Trudinger-Moser inequality on the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{B}=\{z=x+iy:|z|=\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}<1\}$: \[ \sup_{\|u\|_{\mathcal{H}}\leq 1} \int_{\mathbb{B}}(e^{4πu^{2}}-1-4πu^{2})dV=\sup_{\|u\|_{\mathcal{H}}\leq 1}\int_{\mathbb{B}}\frac{(e^{4πu^{2}}-1-4πu^{2})}{(1-|z|^{2})^{2}}dxdy< \infty, \] by using the method employed earlier by Lam and the first author [9, 10], where $\mathcal{H}$ denotes the closure of $C^{\infty}_{0}(\mathbb{B})$ with respect to the norm $$\|u\|_{\mathcal{H}}=\int_{\mathbb{B}}|\nabla u|^{2}dxdy-\int_{\mathbb{B}}\frac{u^{2}}{(1-|z|^{2})^{2}}dxdy.$$ Using this strengthened Trudinger-Moser inequality, we also give a simpler proof of the Hardy-Moser-Trudinger inequality obtained by Wang and Ye [22].