Quality of non-compactness for Sobolev Embedding with one point non-compactness

Abstract

This paper investigates instances of Sobolev embeddings characterized by local compactness at every point within their domain, except for a single point. We obtain the sharp conditions that distinguish compactness from non-compactness and observe that in the context of Sobolev embeddings, non-compactness occurring at only one point within the domain could give rise to an infinite-dimensional subspace where the embedding is invertible (i.e., not strictly singular). Furthermore, we establish lower bounds for the Bernstein numbers, entropy numbers, and the measure of non-compactness.

20 pages