Compact embeddings of variable exponent Sobolev, Besov, and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces on metric measure spaces

Abstract

We study compact embeddings of Sobolev, Besov, and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces with variable exponents on both bounded and unbounded metric measure spaces. We establish sufficient conditions for compactness, and under additional assumptions, we show that they are also necessary. Moreover, we investigate the influence of isometry group actions on the compactness of embeddings. In particular, we answer the open question posed by P. G\'orka in [P. G\'orka, Looking For Compactness In Sobolev Spaces On Noncompact etric Spaces, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., Vol 43, 2018, 531-540], proving a Berestycki-Lions type theorem.