Abstract. We prove that for every Riemannian manifold X with the isoperimetric profile of particular type there holds an inequality of Hardy type for functions of the class W 1,p 0 (X ). We also study manifolds satisfying Hardy's inequality and, in particular, we establish an estimate for the rate of growth of the weighted volume of the noncompact part of such a manifold.
Main resultsLet X be a connected noncompact Riemannian C 2 -manifold without boundary. We denote by ρ(x , x ) the distance between two points x , x ∈ X . For an arbitrary point x ∈ X we set ε(x) = infwhere the infimum is taken over all sequences of points (y k ) ⊂ X , which do not have points of accumulation in X . Let α(t), β(t) : [0, ∞) → [0, ∞) be positive continuous functions. We fix constants p, q such that 1 < p ≤ q < ∞. Let Ω ⊂ X be an arbitrary domain, and let ∂Ω be its boundary. We consider a weighted volumeHere, dv is the element of volume on the manifold X . Below we shall assume thatWe denote a weighted areawhere dH n−1 is the element of the (n − 1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure on ∂Ω. We consider isoperimetric profiles of the Riemannian manifold X with weight functions α and β. An isoperimetric profile of the manifold X is the function θ X : [0, I X ) → R + , θ(0) = 0, (1.1)