A note on strong-form stability for the Sobolev inequality

Abstract

In this note, we establish a strong form of the quantitive Sobolev inequality in Euclidean space for $p \in (1,n)$. Given any function $u \in \dot W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, the gap in the Sobolev inequality controls $\| \nabla u -\nabla v\|_{p}$, where $v$ is an extremal function for the Sobolev inequality.