It is well known that Sobolev embeddings can be refined in the presence of symmetries. Hebey and Vaugon (1997) studied this phenomena in the context of an arbitrary Riemannian manifold M and a compact group of isometries G. They showed that the limit Sobolev exponent increases if there are no points in M with discrete orbits under the action of G. In the paper, the situation where M contains points with discrete orbits is considered. It is shown that the limit Sobolev exponent for (Formula Presented) increases in the case of embeddings into weighted spaces Lq(M, w) instead of the usual Lq spaces, where the weight function w(x) is a positive power of the distance from x to the set of points with discrete orbits. Also, embeddings of (Formula Presented) into weighted Hölder and Orlicz spaces are treated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)77-88
Number of pages12
JournalSt. Petersburg Mathematical Journal
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007

    Research areas

  • Embedding theorems, Sobolev spaces, Symmetries

    Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Algebra and Number Theory
  • Applied Mathematics

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