A characterization of compact parts of \(L^ p\) spaces application to Sobolev embeddings. (Q595825)

This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, the author develops a characterization of compact subsets of \(L^p(\Omega)\). More precisely, for a metric locally compact space \(\Omega\), the author defines a notion of equi-integrability which allows to state an Ascoli theorem for \(L^p(\Omega)\). In the second part, he develops a methodology to retrieve and improve standard results about Sobolev embeddings and compact embeddings \(W^{1,p}(\Omega)\to L^q(\Omega)\).