Minimizers and symmetric minimizers for problems with critical Sobolev exponent
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Concentration-compactness principle, critical Sobolev exponent, symmetric solutions of elliptic equations, Sobolev embeddings in weighted spacesAbstract
In this paper we will be concerned with the existence and non-existence of constrained minimizers in Sobolev spaces $D^{k,p}({\mathbb R}^N)$, where the constraint involves the critical Sobolev exponent. Minimizing sequences are not, in general, relatively compact for the embedding $D^{k,p}({\mathbb R}^N)\hookrightarrow L^{p^*} ({\mathbb R}^N,Q)$ when $Q$ is a non-negative, continuous, bounded function. However if $Q$ has certain symmetry properties then all minimizing sequences are relatively compact in the Sobolev space of appropriately symmetric functions. For $Q$ which does not have the required symmetry, we give a condition under which an equivalent norm in $D^{k,p}({\mathbb R}^N)$ exists so that all minimizing sequences are relatively compact. In fact we give an example of a $Q$ and an equivalent norm in $D^{k,p}({\mathbb R}^N)$ so that all minimizing sequences are relatively compact.Downloads
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2009-12-01
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WALIULLAH, Shoyeb. Minimizers and symmetric minimizers for problems with critical Sobolev exponent. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis. Online. 1 December 2009. Vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 291 - 326. [Accessed 19 April 2024].
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