%0 Journal Article %T An $L^1$-type estimate for Riesz potentials %A Armin Schikorra %A Daniel Spector %A Jean Van Schaftingen %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X In this paper we establish new $L^1$-type estimates for the classical Riesz potentials of order $\alpha \in (0, N)$: \[ \|I_\alpha u\|_{L^{N/(N-\alpha)}(\mathbb{R}^N)} \leq C \|Ru\|_{L^1(\mathbb{R}^N;\mathbb{R}^N)}. \] This sharpens the result of Stein and Weiss on the mapping properties of Riesz potentials on the real Hardy space $\mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$ and provides a new family of $L^1$-Sobolev inequalities for the Riesz fractional gradient. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2318v3