Well, I think you have to accept that concentration compactness is *concept* rather than a *result*. The intro of the mentioned book starts with > The subject of this book, concentration compactness, is a method for establishing convergence, in functional spaces, of sequences that are not a priori located in a compact set. If you accept that there is no theorem that captures the concept and don't want a whole book, you should read the explanation on concentration compactness [here][1] (longer than a theorem, but shorter than a book). A theorem that may come close to what you want is Theorem 3.1 (page 62) of said book. The basic notion of space is "dislocation space" which is a Hilbert space together with a set of bounded linear operators with certain properties… [1]: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/concentration-compactness-and-the-profile-decomposition/