We establish the Trudinger-Moser inequality on weighted Sobolev spaces in the whole space, and for a class of quasilinear elliptic operators in radial form of the type $\displaystyle Lu:=-r^{ -\theta}(r^{ \alpha}\vert u'(r)\vert^{ \beta}u'(r))'$, where $\theta, \beta\geq 0$ and $\alpha>0$, are constants satisfying some existence conditions. It worth emphasizing that these operators generalize the $p$- Laplacian and $k$-Hessian operators in the radial case. Our results involve fractional dimensions, a new weighted P\'olya-Szeg{ \"o} principle, and a boundness value for the optimal constant in a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequality.
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