Embeddings of Sobolev spaces on unbounded domains

Summary Piecewise polynomial and Fourier approximation of functions in the Sobolev spaces on unbounded domains Θ ⊂ Rⁿ are applied to the study of the type of compact embeddings into appropriate Lebesgue and Orlicz spaces. It is shown that if Θ and s satisfy certain conditions, the embeddings , m/n+1/q−1/p>0 and , Φ being an Orlicz function subordinate to both φ(t)=|t|^p exp |t|^n/(n−m) and Φ^σ(t)=exp |t|^σ−1, σ ⩾ 1, m/n>1/p, are of type l^s. One result dealing with multiplications maps from into L^q(Θ) is also obtained. Entrata in Redazione il 14 ottobre 1976.