Compactness of Sobolev imbeddings involving rearrangement-invariant norms

Ron Kerman¹ ; Luboš Pick²

¹ Department of Mathematics Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1
² Department of Mathematical Analysis Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Sokolovská 83 186 75 Praha 8, Czech Republic

Studia Mathematica, Tome 186 (2008) no. 2, pp. 127-160

Résumé

We find necessary and sufficient conditions on a pair of rearrangement-invariant norms, $\varrho$ and $\sigma$, in order that the Sobolev space $W^{m,\varrho}({\mit\Omega})$ be compactly imbedded into the rearrangement-invariant space $L_\sigma({\mit\Omega})$, where ${\mit\Omega}$ is a bounded domain in ${\mathbb R}^n$ with Lipschitz boundary and $1\leq m\leq n-1$. In particular, we establish the equivalence of the compactness of the Sobolev imbedding with the compactness of a certain Hardy operator from $L_{\varrho}(0,|{\mit\Omega}|)$ into $L_{\sigma}(0,|{\mit\Omega}|)$. The results are illustrated with examples in which $\varrho$ and $\sigma$ are both Orlicz norms or both Lorentz Gamma norms.

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DOI : 10.4064/sm186-2-2

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