Sharp fully nonlinear Sobolev trace inequality on the ball

Let (Bn+1,dx2)(B^{n+1},dx^2) be the unit ball in Euclidean (n+1)(n+1)-space. For a positive integer k<n+12k<\frac{n+1}{2}, define

Ck1:={g=u2dx2σjg0, Hjg>0, 1jk1}.\mathcal{C}_{k-1}:=\left\{g=u^2dx^2\mid \sigma_j^g\geq 0,\ H_j^g>0,\ 1\leq j\leq k-1\right\}.

For gCk1g\in\mathcal{C}_{k-1}, let

Sk(g):=Bn+1σkgdvolg+SnHkgdvolιg.\mathcal{S}_k(g):=\int_{B^{n+1}}\sigma_k^g\,\operatorname{dvol}_g+\oint_{S^n}H_k^g\,\operatorname{dvol}_{\iota^*g}.

Sharp Sobolev trace inequality. One has

Sk(g)n!(n+1k)!(2k1)!!ωn2k1n(Volιg(Sn))n+12kn,\mathcal{S}_k(g)\geq \frac{n!}{(n+1-k)!(2k-1)!!}\omega_n^{\frac{2k-1}{n}}\left(\operatorname{Vol}_{\iota^*g}(S^n)\right)^{\frac{n+1-2k}{n}},

with equality if and only if gg is flat.

This is the expected fully nonlinear analogue of the sharp Sobolev trace inequality, extending results for the scalar-curvature case and related conformal curvature problems. The supplied context does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Jeffrey S. Case and Yi Wang, “On a fully nonlinear sharp Sobolev trace inequality”, arXiv:1910.14232 (2019).

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