- BEHAVIOR OF μ (g, T) FOR T SMALL 19
Since gi = if!igi---+ 9JR.n, by (17.116) below and (17.60), we have for any
compact domain n C ~n and any 2 < p < n^2 ::_ 2 (when n = 2, define
n-2 2n ::'::: · oo)
(17.61)
where C (O,p) < oo is independent of i. Since (17.53) says
(17.62)
-2Ll 9 iwi + ~R 9 iwi - (~log (27r) + n) Wi - μ (gi, ~) Wi = 2wi logwi,
by the LP estimate for solutions to second-order elliptic equations (see The-
orem 9.11 in Gilbarg and Trudinger [71]) applied to wi on n, we have
(17.63) llwi llw2,p(n, 9 1&\n) :S C (n, p)
for any 2 < p < n^2 ::_ 2 and all i.
By the Sobolev inequality, we have
1
C llwill L P( n=-2 n )2 (!1,91&\n) :S llwillW1'~(!1 ,gl&\n ) :SC llwillw2,p(!1,gl&ln),
where C = C (O,p) < oo is independent of i (note that n":p 2: n":. 2 and
JM w'f dμ 9 i = 1). Thus, by applying (17.115) with 8 > 0 arbitrarily small,
we have
lo lwdogwilq dμJR.n :SC (n, q)
for 2 :S q < 2 ( n":._ 2 )
3
, independent of i. From this and the standard elliptic
LP estimate for (17.62), we obtain the stronger (as compared to (17.63))
estimate
llwillw2,q(n, 9 l&ln) :SC (n, q)
for 2 :S q < 2 ( n":._ 2 )
3
. By iterating the above argument (easy exercise), we
see that for any q E (1, oo)
(17.64) llwillw2,q(n, 9 l&ln) :SC (n, q),
where C (n, q) is independent of i.^5
Because we have (17.64) with q > n, by the Sobolev inequality it follows
that
llwillc1,a(n, 9 l&ln) :SC (0)
for some a E (0, 1) and where C (0) < oo is independent of i. By the Arzela-
Ascoli theorem and a diagonalization argument, passing to a subsequence,
we have that for some a E (0, 1) there is a nonnegative function Woo in
Cl,a (~n, 9JR.n) such that