In a former paper we describe the geometric properties of the space of continuous functions with values in the space of operators acting on a Hilbert space. In particular we show that dent B(L(H)) = ext B(L(H)) if dim H < 8 and card K < 8 and dent B(L(H)) = 0 if dim H < 8 or card K = 8, and x-ext C(K,L(H)) = ext C(K,L(H)).
We prove that any bounded sequence in a Hilbert homogeneous Sobolev space has a subsequence which can be decomposed as an almost-orthogonal sum of a sequence going strongly to zero in the corresponding Lebesgue space, and of a superposition of terms obtained from fixed profiles by applying sequences of translations and dilations. This decomposition contains in particular the various versions of the concentration-compactness principle.
In this text, we present two recent results on the characterization of the lack of compactness of some critical Sobolev embedding. The first one derived in [5] deals with an abstract framework including Sobolev, Besov, Triebel-Lizorkin, Lorentz, Hölder and BMO spaces. The second one established in [3] concerns the lack of compactness of into the Orlicz space. Although the two results are expressed in the same manner (by means of defect measures) and rely on the defect of compactness due to concentration...