Moser-Trudinger and Beckner-Onofri's inequalities on the CR sphere

Abstract

We derive sharp Moser-Trudinger inequalities on the CR sphere. The first type is in the Adams form, for powers of the sublaplacian and for general spectrally defined operators on the space of CR-pluriharmonic functions. We will then obtain the sharp Beckner-Onofri inequality for CR-pluriharmonic functions on the sphere, and, as a consequence, a sharp logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality in the form given by Carlen and Loss.