Sharp multipolar $L^p$-Hardy-type inequalities on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

In this paper we prove sharp multipolar Hardy-type inequalities in the Riemannian $L^p-$setting for $p\geq 2$ using the method of super-solutions and fundamental results from comparison theory on manifolds, thus generalizing previous results for $p=2$. We emphasize that when we restrict to Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, the inequalities improve in the case $2<p<N$ compared to the case $p=2$ since we obtain positive remainder terms which are controlled by curvature estimates. In the end, we treat the cases of positive and negative constant sectional curvature.