Sharp generalized Trudinger inequalities via truncation (Q2497403)

Imbedding problems between Sobolev spaces are particularly delicate in the case of so-called ``critical exponents''. For instance, \textit{N.\,S.\thinspace Trudinger} showed in the pioneering paper [J.~Math.\ Mech.\ 17, 473--484 (1967; Zbl 0163.36402)] that \(W_0^{1,n}(\Omega)\) is imbedded into the Orlicz space \(\exp L^{n/(n-1)}(\Omega)\) whose generating Young function does not satisfy a \(\Delta_2\) condition. Since then, a large variety of results of this type have been published which aim at choosing ``sharper'' spaces among other classes of rearrangement-invariant function spaces. In the paper under review, the author discusses this problem by passing from Orlicz to Orlicz--Lorentz spaces, which yields, under some natural hypotheses on truncations, essentially stronger imbedding results.