Nonexistence conjecture for extremizers of the odd fractional Schrödinger inequality

At least 7 years old · documented by

Let p≥2p\geq 2, let Qp{\bf Q}_p denote the sharp constant in the odd convolution inequality, and let C2{\bf C}_2 be the best constant for the parabola in convolution form, with

C26=π3.{\bf C}_2^6=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{3}}.

Conjecture for the odd fractional Schrödinger inequality. For every p≥2p\geq 2,

(QpC2)6=5p(p−1).\biggl(\frac{{\bf Q}_p}{{\bf C}_2}\biggr)^6=\frac{5}{p(p-1)}.

Moreover, extremizers for the odd sharp convolution inequality do not exist.

For 1<p<21<p<2, the preceding discussion establishes existence of extremizers, while the case p≥2p\geq 2 remains harder; the conjecture asserts that the critical threshold is attained as a sharp constant but not by any extremizer.

References

Primary source

Gianmarco Brocchi, Diogo Oliveira e Silva and René Quilodrán, “Sharp Strichartz inequalities for fractional and higher order Schrödinger equations”, arXiv:1804.11291 (2018).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.