On a version of Trudinger-Moser inequality with Mobius shift invariance

Abstract

The paper raises a question about the optimal critical nonlinearity for the Sobolev space in two dimensions, connected to loss of compactness, and discusses the pertinent concentration compactness framework. We study properties of the improved version of the Trudinger-Moser inequality on the open unit disk B⊂R², recently proved by Mancini and Sandeep. Unlike the original Trudinger-Moser inequality, this inequality is invariant with respect to the Mobius automorphisms of the unit disk, and as such is a closer analogy of the critical nonlinearity ∫|u|^2∗in the higher dimension than the original Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity.