N. Alpay

The sharp discrete Hardy inequality on $\Z^3$

We determine the sharp constant in the nearest-neighbor Hardy inequality on $\Z^3$ with the Euclidean inverse-square weight. For every finitely supported function $u:\Z^3\to\C$, we prove \[ \sum_{x\in\Z^3}\sum_{j=1}^3 |u(x+e_j)-u(x)|^2 \geq \frac14\sum_{x\in\Z^3\setminus\{0\}} \frac{|u(x)|^2}{|x|^2}. \] The coefficient...