Improved higher-order Sobolev inequalities on CR sphere

Abstract

We improve higher-order CR Sobolev inequalities on $S^{2n+1}$ under the vanishing of higher order moments of the volume element. As an application, we give a new and direct proof of the classification of minimizers of the CR invariant higher-order Sobolev inequalities. In the same spirit, we prove almost sharp Sobolev inequalities for GJMS operators to general CR manifolds, and obtain the existence of minimizers in $C^{2k}(N)$ of higher-order CR Yamabe-type problems when $Y_k(N)<Y_k(\mathbb{H}^n)$.