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Is the Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity a true critical nonlinearity?
While the critical nonlinearity $\int |u|^2^$* for the Sobolev space $H^1$ in
dimension N > 2 lacks weak continuity at any point, Trudinger-Moser nonlinearity
$\int e^(4\piu^2)$ in dimension N = 2 is weakly continuous at any point except
zero. In the former case the lack of weak continuity can be attributed to invariance
with respect to actions of translations and dilations. The Sobolev space
$H^1_0$f the unit disk $\mathbb{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ possesses transformations analogous to translations
(Möbius transformations) and nonlinear dilations $r\to r^s$. We present
improvements of the Trudinger-Moser inequality with nonlinearities sharper than
$\int e^(4\piu^2)$ that lack weak continuity at any point and possess (separately), translation
and dilation invariance. We show, however, that no nonlinearity of the
form $\int F(|x|, u(x))dx$ is both dilation- and Möbius shift-invariant. The paper
also gives a new, very short proof of the conformal-invariant Trudinger-Moser
inequality obtained recently by Mancini and Sandeep [10] and of a sharper
version of Onofri-type inequality of Beckner [4].