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The attainability of the exact constant in the Hardy-Sobolev inequality is established in an arbitrary cone in ℝn. Bibliography: 17 titles.
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Translated from Problemy Matematicheskogo Analiza, No. 31, 2005, pp. 39–46.
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Nazarov, A.I. Hardy-Sobolev Inequalities in a Cone. J Math Sci 132, 419–427 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-005-0508-1
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