Measure of noncompactness of Sobolev embeddings on strip-like domains (Q2045838)

This paper is devoted to the study of the Sobolev embeddings \(W^{1,p}_0(D)\to L^p(D)\), where \(p\in(0,\infty)\) and \(D\) is a strip-like domain of the form \(\mathbb{R}^k\times \prod_{j=1}^{n-k}(r_j,q_j)\) with \(n\ge 2\), \(1\le k\le n-1\) and \(0<q_j<r_j<\infty\). Via computing the precise value of the measure of noncompactness \(\beta(I_p)\) of the natural embeddings \(I_p:\ W^{1,p}_0(D)\to L^p(D)\) as \[\beta(I_p)=\left(1+(p-1) \left(\frac{2\pi}{p\sin(\pi/p)}\right)^p\sum_{j=1}^{n-k}(r_j-q_j)^{-p}\right)^{-1/p}\] and proving the coincidence \(\beta(I_p)=\|I_p\|\), it is proved that the embedding \(I_p\) is maximally noncompact. Besides, the authors show that not only the measure of noncompactness but also all strict \(s\)-numbers of the embeddings in question coincide with their norms. Furthermore, the maximal noncompactness of Sobolev embeddings on strip-like domains is also proved to be valid even when Sobolev-type spaces are built upon general rearrangement-invariant spaces. As a by-product, the explicit form for the first eigenfunction of the pseudo-\(p\)-Laplacian on an \(n\)-dimensional rectangle is also obtained.