$L^p$-Hardy identities and inequalities with respect to the distance and mean distance to the boundary

Abstract: Firstly, this paper establishes useful forms of the remainder term of Hardy-type inequalities on general domains where the weights are functions of the distance to the boundary. For weakly mean convex domains we use the resulting identities to establish nonexistence of extremizers for and improve known sharp Hardy inequalities. Secondly, we establish geometrically interesting remainders for the Davies-Hardy-Tidblom inequalities for the mean distance function, as well as generalize and improve several Hardy type inequalities in the spirit of Brezis and Marcus and spectral estimates of Davies. Lastly, we apply our results to obtain Sobolev inequalities for non-regular Riemannian metrics on geometric exterior domains.