On an effect of inhomogeneous constraints for a maximizing problem of the Sobolev embedding associated with the space of bounded variation

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a maximizing problem associated with the Sobolev type embedding on the space of bounded variation. We show that, although the maximizing problem suffers from both of the non-compactness of vanishing and concentrating phenomena, there exists a maximizer for some range of the exponents. Furthermore, we show that any maximizer must be given by a characteristic function on a ball.