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Sobolev Inequalities in Familiar and Unfamiliar Settings

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Sobolev Spaces In Mathematics I

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The classical Sobolev inequalities play a key role in analysis in Euclidean spaces and in the study of solutions of partial differential equations. In fact, they are extremely flexible tools and are useful in many different settings. This paper gives a glimpse of assortments of such applications in a variety of contexts.

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Saloff-Coste, L. (2009). Sobolev Inequalities in Familiar and Unfamiliar Settings. In: Maz’ya, V. (eds) Sobolev Spaces In Mathematics I. International Mathematical Series, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85648-3_11

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