Compactness, interpolation inequalities for small Lebesgue-Sobolev spaces and applications (Q818995)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with \(C^{0,1}\)-boundary and let \(L^{p)}(\Omega)\) be the so called Grand Lebesgue space introduced by Iwaniec-Sbordone. The associated space \(L^{(p}(\Omega)=\left[L^{p^\prime )}(\Omega)\right]^\prime\) was introduced and characterized by the first author, who called them small Lebesgue spaces. These spaces have the property: \[ L^{p+\varepsilon}(\Omega)\subset L^{(p}(\Omega)\subset L^{p}(\Omega)\subset L^{(p}(\Omega) \subset L^{p-\varepsilon}(\Omega), \;\;\;\varepsilon >0. \] The authors introduce the corresponding small Sobolev spaces \[ W^{1,(p}(\Omega)=\{v\in W^{1,1}(\Omega): |\nabla v| \in L^{(p}(\Omega)\}, \;\;\;1<p<\infty \] and show that that \(W^{1,(p}(\Omega)\) is compactly imbedded into \(L^q(\Omega), q=\frac{np}{n-p}, 1<p<n,\) contrast to the usual Lebesgue spaces. They also consider applications of this result to some variational problems with critical exponent.