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How smooth are restrictions of Besov functions?

Functional Analysis 2025-10-16 v3 Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In a previous work, we showed that Besov spaces do not enjoy the restriction property unless qpq\leq p. Specifically, we proved that if p<qp<q, then it is always possible to construct a function fBp,qs(RN)f\in B_{p,q}^s(\mathbb{R}^N) such that f(,y)Bp,qs(Rd)f(\cdot,y)\notin B_{p,q}^s(\mathbb{R}^d) for a.e. yRNdy\in \mathbb{R}^{N-d}, while this "pathology" does not happen if qpq\leq p. We showed that the partial maps belong, in fact, to the Besov space of generalised smoothness Bp,q(s,Ψ)(Rd)B_{p,q}^{(s,\Psi)}(\mathbb{R}^d) provided the function Ψ\Psi satisfies a simple summability condition involving pp and qq. This short note completes the picture by showing that this characterisation is sharp.

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@article{arxiv.2509.07420,
  title  = {How smooth are restrictions of Besov functions?},
  author = {Julien Brasseur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07420},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Preliminary version: a longer version with additional results will follow. Comments are welcome