Uniqueness conjecture for Trudinger–Moser maximizers on balls

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Let α=4π\alpha=4\pi and let Ω\Omega be a ball. Consider the Trudinger–Moser inequality on Ω\Omega, with maximizers taken among the admissible functions in the inequality.

Uniqueness conjecture. If α=4π\alpha=4\pi and Ω\Omega is a ball, then the maximizers of the Trudinger–Moser inequality are unique.

Carleson and Chang proved that the supremum is attained by a radial maximizer when α=4π\alpha=4\pi and Ω\Omega is a ball. The conjecture asks whether this maximizer is the only one; the cited context does not state that the conjecture has been resolved.

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Lu Chen, Guozhen Lu, Ying Xue and Maochun Zhu, “Uniqueness of positive solutions to elliptic equations with the critical exponential growth on the unit disc and its applications”, arXiv:2210.16999 (2022).

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