Sharp Stability for the Affine Fractional Sobolev Inequality

Abstract

In this paper, we prove a sharp quantitative stability result for the affine fractional \(L^2\)-Sobolev inequality in \(\dot H^s(\mathbb R^n)\), \(0<s<1\), introduced by Haddad--Ludwig (\emph{Math. Ann.} \textbf{388} (2024), 1091--1115). In particular, we identify the kernel of the affine Hessian, determine the sharp local spectral gap, and show that the optimal global stability constant is strictly smaller than the corresponding local spectral value.