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Sobolev の埋蔵定理について概説する.
全空間 \(\Rbb^n\) 上の Sobolev 空間 \(W^{m, p}(\Rbb^n)\) について, 次の埋蔵定理が知られている.
\(n \geq 2\), \(m \geq 1\), \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\) とする. このとき, 次の包含関係が成立する.
\(p = 1\), \(m = n\) の場合は例外的に \(W^{n, 1}(\Rbb^n) \subset L^\infty(\Rbb^n)\) が成立する. 実際, 任意の \(u \in C^\infty_0(\Rbb^n)\), \(x \in \Rbb^n\) に対して $$ |u(x)| = \left| \int_{-\infty}^{x_1} \cdots \int_{-\infty}^{x_n} \frac{\p^n u}{\p x_1 \cdots \p x_n}(t_1, \ldots, t_n)\,dt_1 \cdots dt_n \right| \leq \| u \|_{W^{n, 1}(\Rbb^n)} $$ が成立する. \(C^\infty_0(\Rbb^n)\) は \(W^{n, 1}(\Rbb^n)\) で稠密であるから, 任意の \(u \in W^{n, 1}(\Rbb^n)\) に対して $$ \| u \|_{L^\infty(\Rbb^n)} \leq \| u \|_{W^{n, 1}(\Rbb^n)} $$ が成立する.
\(\GO\) を半空間 \(\Rbb^n_+ := \{ x = (x_1, \ldots, x_n) \in \Rbb^n \mid x_n > 0\}\) または \(C^1\) 級の境界をもつ有界領域とする. このとき, 延長作用素 $$ P: W^{1, p}(\GO) \rightarrow W^{1, p}(\Rbb^n) $$ が有界線型作用素として定義できる. このことを利用すれば, 定理1. より次の定理が従う.
\(n \geq 2\), \(m \geq 1\), \(1 \leq p \leq \infty\) とする. このとき, 次の包含関係が成立する.
延長作用 \(P\) の存在を保証するため \(\GO\) の境界が \(C^1\) 級であることを仮定したが, この条件は緩めることができる. 詳しくは Adams, Fournier を参照すること.