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Existence of extremal functions for a family of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities

Consider the following inequalities due to Caffarelli, Kohn and Nirenberg {\it (Compositio Mathematica,1984):} $$\Big(\int_Ω\frac{|u|^r}{|x|^s}dx\Big)^{\frac{1}{r}}\leq C(p,q,r,μ,σ,s)\Big(\int_Ω\frac{|\nabla u|^p}{|x|^μ}dx\Big)^{\frac{a}{p}}\Big(\int_Ω\frac{|u|^q}{|x|^σ}dx\Big)^{\frac{1-a}{q}},$$ where $Ω\subset \R^N (N\geq 2)$ is an open set; $p, q, r, μ, σ, s, a$ are some parameters satisfying some balanced conditions. When $Ω$ is a cone in $\R^N$ (for example, $Ω=\R^N)$, we prove the sharp constant $C(p,q,r,μ,σ,s)$ can be achieved for a very large parameter space. Besides, we find some sufficient conditions which guarantee that the following Sobolev spaces $$W_μ^{1,p}(Ω),\; W_μ^{1,p}(Ω)\cap L^p(Ω), \; H^{1,p}(\R^N) $$ are compactly embedded into $L^r(\R^N, \frac{dx}{|x|^s})$ for some new ranges of parameters, where $\displaystyle W_μ^{1,p}(Ω)$ is the completion of $C_0^\infty(Ω)$ with respect to the norm $\displaystyle \Big(\int_Ω\frac{ |\nabla u|^p}{|x|^μ}dx\Big)^{\frac{1}{p}}. $ As applications, we also study the equation $$\displaystyle -div\Big(\frac{|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u}{|x|^μ}\Big)=λV(x)|u|^{q-2}u, \;\;\; u\in W_μ^{1,p}(Ω)$$ under some proper conditions on $V(x)$.