On minimal decay at infinity of Hardy-weights

Abstract

We study the behaviour of Hardy-weights for a class of variational quasi-linear elliptic operators of $p$-Laplacian type. In particular, we obtain necessary sharp decay conditions at infinity on the Hardy-weights in terms of their integrability with respect to certain integral weights. Some of the results are extended also to nonsymmetric linear elliptic operators. Applications to various examples are discussed as well.