Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-functional-analytic-methods-for-partial-differential-equations-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/1/c/ii/solution

Use the continuous representative of furnished by the one-dimensional Sobolev embedding theorem, and define on . The one-dimensional Sobolev representative is absolutely continuous; Holder inequality applied to its fundamental theorem of calculus gives
Also : select a point where is no larger than its norm on the unit-length interval and apply the same fundamental theorem of calculus. Thus the one-dimensional Hölder norm is controlled by .
The two Hölder seminorms must be compared using the correct distances. By the reverse triangle inequality,
Conversely, take and for any fixed unit vector . Then , so taking suprema yields equality of the two Hölder seminorms. Their supremum norms are equal as well. Part (i) now gives
The representative agrees with almost everywhere, and the assignment is linear and injective on the radial Sobolev space. This proves the requested continuous embedding. The inner radius being positive makes the radial profile Sobolev norm comparable to its weighted radial version.

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