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Existence of optimizers in a Sobolev inequality for vector fields

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-17 v2 Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

We consider the minimization problem corresponding to a Sobolev inequality for vector fields and show that minimizing sequences are relatively compact up to the symmetries of the problem. In particular, there is a minimizer. An ingredient in our proof is a version of the Rellich--Kondrachov compactness theorem for sequences satisfying a nonlinear constraint.

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@article{arxiv.2107.06450,
  title  = {Existence of optimizers in a Sobolev inequality for vector fields},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Michael Loss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06450},
  year   = {2022}
}

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31 pages. This is the publication version, incorporating the journal style

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