The weighted Sobolev decay conjecture for the Green kernel of the p-Laplacian

Let MM be a metric-measure space, let u>p>1 u>p>1, and let ΩM\Omega\subset M be a connected open set containing a fixed origin oo. Write r(x)=dist(x,o)r(x)=\operatorname{dist}(x,o), and let G\mathcal{G} denote the Green kernel of the pp-Laplacian on Ω\Omega with pole at oo. Assume that Ω\Omega supports the weighted Sobolev inequality

(Ωη(r)pνpψνpνp)νpνSp,νΩψpψLipc(Ω),\left( \int_{\Omega} \eta(r)^{-\frac{p}{\nu-p}} |\psi|^{\frac{\nu p}{\nu-p}}\right)^{\frac{\nu-p}{\nu}} \le \mathscr{S}_{p,\nu} \int_{\Omega} |\nabla \psi|^p \qquad \forall\,\psi\in\operatorname{Lip}_c(\Omega),

where Sp,ν>0\mathscr{S}_{p,\nu}>0 and ηC(R0+)\eta\in C(\mathbb{R}^+_0) is positive and non-decreasing. The weighted Sobolev decay conjecture. The pp-Laplacian is non-parabolic on Ω\Omega and

G(x)Cp,ν1p1η(2r(x))1p1r(x)νpp1,xΩ{o},\mathcal{G}(x)\le C_{p,\nu}^{\frac{1}{p-1}}\eta\bigl(2r(x)\bigr)^{\frac{1}{p-1}}r(x)^{-\frac{\nu-p}{p-1}},\qquad \forall x\in\Omega\setminus\{o\},

where

Cp,ν=Sp,ννp[2νp(1+p)p(pp1)p1]νpp.C_{p,\nu}=\mathscr{S}_{p,\nu}^{\frac{\nu}{p}}\left[2^{\nu}p(1+p)^p\left(\frac{p}{p-1}\right)^{p-1}\right]^{\frac{\nu-p}{p}}.

Moreover, Cp,νC_{p,\nu} is bounded as p1p\to1 whenever Sp,ν\mathscr{S}_{p,\nu} is, and if η(t)=o(tνp)\eta(t)=o(t^{\nu-p}) as tt\to\infty, then G(x)0\mathcal{G}(x)\to0 as r(x)r(x)\to\infty in Ω\Omega. The conjecture concerns decay and non-parabolicity of the Green kernel under a weighted Sobolev inequality; the source attributes it to earlier work, but the supplied text gives no resolution, so its status remains open.

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Luca Benatti, Luciano Mari, Marco Rigoli, Alberto G. Setti and Kai Xu, “Proper solutions of the 1/H-flow and the Green kernel of the p-Laplacian”, arXiv:2512.14591 (2026).

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