Limiting cases of Sobolev inequalities on stratified groups

Abstract

In this paper we present critical Gagliardo-Nirenberg, Trudinger-type and Brezis-Gallouet-Wainger inequalities concerning the limiting cases of the embedding theorems for Sobolev spaces on stratified groups. Moreover, using the critical Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality the existence of least energy solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger type equations can be obtained. We also express the best constant in the critical Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality in the variational form as well as in terms of the ground state solutions of the corresponding nonlinear subelliptic equations.