Sharp critical and subcritical trace Trudinger-Moser and Adams inequalities on the upper half spaces

Abstract: In this paper, we establish the sharp critical and subcritical trace Trudinger-Moser and Adams inequalities on the half spaces and prove the existence of their extremals through the method based on the Fourier rearrangement, harmonic extension and scaling invariance. These trace Trudinger-Moser and Adams inequalities can be considered as the borderline case of the Sobolev trace inequalities of first and higher orders. Furthermore, we show the existence of the least energy solutions for a class of bi-harmonic equations with nonlinear Neumann boundary condition associated with the trace Adams inequalities.