Conductor and capacitary inequalities for functions on topological spaces and their applications to Sobolev-type imbeddings

The present article contains new conductor inequalities for nonnegative functionals acting on functions defined on topological spaces. Sharp capacitary inequalities, stronger than the classical Sobolev inequality, with the best constant and the sharp form of the Yudovich inequality (Soviet Math. Dokl. 2 (1961) 746) due to Moser (Indiana Math. J. 20 (1971) 1077) are found.