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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 105 2 f Solution by
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The Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem says that if is a bounded Lipschitz domain, thenfor when . When , the embedding is compact into every finite , and when it is compact into , hence into every .
The boundedness of the domain is essential. Choose a nonzero and setTranslation invariance gives , so after a fixed rescaling these functions lie in the unit ball. Their supports are pairwise disjoint andNo subsequence is Cauchy in , so the unit ball is not compact. This is the standard failure of Rellich compactness on an unbounded domain.
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