Higher order Hardy-Rellich identities

Abstract

In this paper, we show Hardy-Rellich identities for polyharmonic operators $\Delta^m$ and radial Laplacian $\Delta_r^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Hardy-H\'enon weight $|x|^\alpha$ for all $m, n\in \mathbb{N}, \alpha\in \mathbb{R}$. Moreover, the iterative method is applied to give Hardy-Rellich equalities with general weights on Riemannian manifolds. These identities provide naturally an alternative approach to obtain and improve Hardy-Rellich type inequalities. As example of application, we extend several Rellich inequalities of Tertikas-Zographopoulos (Adv. Math. 2007) to the weighted case; using equality with weights involving logarithmic, we show another new weighted Rellich estimate between integrals of $\Delta u$ and $|\nabla u|$; we establish also a Rellich identity involving the Laplace-Beltrami operator $\Delta_\mathbb{H}$ and the radial Laplacian $\Delta_{\rho, \mathbb{H}}$ of the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$, which yields in particular brand-new Rellich inequalities for $\|\Delta_\mathbb{H} u\|$ in $\mathbb{H}^3$ and $\mathbb{H}^4$.