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ESTIMATES FOR THE SOBOLEV TRACE CONSTANT WITH CRITICAL EXPONENT AND APPLICATIONS JULIÁN FERNÁNDEZ BONDER AND NICOLAS SAINTIER Abstract. In this paper we find estimates for the optimal constant in p p the critical Sobolev trace inequality S u Lp ∗ (∂Ω) ≤ u W 1,p (Ω) that are independent of Ω. This estimates generalized those of [3] for general p . Here p ∗ := p (N − 1)/(N − p ) is the critical exponent for the immersion and N is the space dimension. Then we apply our results first to prove existence of positive solutions to a nonlinear elliptic problem with a nonlinear boundary condition with critical growth on the boundary, generalizing the results of [16]. Finally, we study an optimal design problem with critical exponent. 1. Introduction Sobolev inequalities are relevant for the study of boundary value problems for differential operators. They have been studied by many authors and it is by now a classical subject. It at least goes back to [1], for more references see [9]. In particular, the Sobolev trace inequality has been intensively studied in [4, 11, 13, 16, 19], etc. Let Ω be a bounded smooth domain of RN . For any 1 p N , the Sobolev trace immersion says that there exists a constant S 0 such that p ∗ p/p ∗ p p S |u | dS ≤ |∇u | + |u | dx ∂Ω Ω for any u ∈ W 1,p (Ω), where W 1,p (Ω) is the usual Sobolev spaces of the p p functions u ∈ L (Ω such that ∇u ∈ L (Ω. Here p∗ := p (N − 1)/(N − p ) is the critical exponent for this inequality. The optimal constant in the ab