Sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities on compact CR manifold

Abstract: Assume that $M$ is a CR compact manifold without boundary and CR Yamabe invariant $\mathcal{Y}(M)$ is positive. Here, we devote to study a class of sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality as follows \begin{equation*} \Bigl| \int_M\int_M [G_\xi^\theta(\eta)]^{\frac{Q-\alpha}{Q-2}} f(\xi) g(\eta) dV_\theta(\xi) dV_\theta(\eta) \Bigr| \leq \mathcal{Y}\alpha(M) |f|{L^{\frac{2Q}{Q+\alpha}}(M)} |g|{L^{\frac{2Q}{Q+\alpha}}(M)}, \end{equation*} where $G\xi^\theta(\eta)$ is the Green function of CR conformal Laplacian $\mathcal{L_\theta}=b_n\Delta_b+R$, $\mathcal{Y}\alpha(M)$ is sharp constant, $\Delta_b$ is Sublaplacian and $R$ is Tanaka-Webster scalar curvature. For the diagonal case $f=g$, we prove that $\mathcal{Y}\alpha(M)\geq \mathcal{Y}\alpha(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1})$ (the unit complex sphere of $\mathbb{C}^{n+1}$) and $\mathcal{Y}\alpha(M)$ can be attained if $\mathcal{Y}\alpha(M)> \mathcal{Y}\alpha(\mathbb{S}^{2n+1})$. Particular, if $\alpha=2$, the previous extremal problem is closely related to the CR Yamabe problem. Hence, we can study the CR Yamabe problem by integral equations.