Robert A. Adams, John J.F.

Fournier:
Sobolev Spaces. 2nd ed.

R. A. Adams’s treatise “Sobolev Spaces”, which appeared in 1975 [Academic

Press; Zbl 0314.46030], has become the quintessential reference work in this
area. Now, he and J. Fournier have produced a second edition whose outline is
similar but not entirely identical to that of the first edition.
There are 8 chapters, as in the first edition, namely: 1. Preliminaries; 2. The
Lebesgue spaces Lp (Ω); 3. The Sobolev spaces W m,p (Ω); 4. The Sobolev imbed-
ding theorem; 5. Interpolation, extension, and approximation theorems; 6. Com-
pact imbeddings of Sobolev spaces; 7. Fractional order spaces; 8. Orlicz spaces
and Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.
The most noticeable changes have occurred in Chapters 2, 4, 5, and 7.
Chapter 2 now contains a treatment of weak Lp -spaces, weak type operators
and the Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem. The proofs of the various versions
of the Sobolev embedding theorem have been streamlined; as a result Chapters 4
and 5 have switched their position. Some results in the current Chapter 5 have
been strengthened in that for example the assumption of the uniform cone
condition has been replaced by the mere cone condition.
Chapter 7 has been completely rewritten. It is now based on the real inter-
polation method that is presented in detail. The authors introduce and study
Besov spaces as well as Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and Bessel potential spaces,
their relations and their emdeddings. The remaining chapters have undergone
only minor changes.
Without doubt the new edition will serve generations of mathematicians as
a reference tool as the first edition has done in the last 30 years.

Robert A. Adams, John J.F. Fournier: Sobolev Spaces. 2nd ed.

Academic Press (Elsevier), 90 EUR.