%0 Journal Article %A Arrieta Algarra, José María %A Rodríguez Bernal, Aníbal %A Rossi, Julio D. %T The best Sobolev trace constant as limit of the usual Sobolev constant for small strips near the boundary %D 2008 %@ 0308-2105 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49743 %X In this paper we prove that the best constant in the Sobolev trace embedding H1() ,! Lq(@) in a bounded smooth domain can be obtained as the limit as " ! 0 of the best constant of the usual Sobolev embedding H1() ,! Lq(!", dx/") where !" = {x 2 : dist(x, @) < "} is a small neighborhood of the boundary. We also analyze symmetry properties of extremals of this last embedding when is a ball. %~