Sobolev Spaces
by Robert A. Adams, John J. F. Fournier · Robert A. Adams, John J.F. Fournier
Standard reference monograph on Sobolev spaces, covering weak derivatives, embedding and compactness theorems, interpolation, extension operators, fractional-order spaces and Orlicz–Sobolev spaces. Readers gain the function-space toolkit used in elliptic PDE and the calculus of variations.
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