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On the Morse-Sard Property and Level Sets of Sobolev and BV Functions

Analysis of PDEs 2015-12-15 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We establish Luzin NN and Morse-Sard properties for BV2BV_2-functions defined on open domains in the plane. Using these results we prove that almost all level sets are finite disjoint unions of Lipschitz arcs whose tangent vectors are of bounded variation. In the case of W2,1W^{2,1}-functions we strengthen the conclusion and show that almost all level sets are finite disjoint unions of C1C^1-arcs whose tangent vectors are absolutely continuous.

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@article{arxiv.1007.4408,
  title  = {On the Morse-Sard Property and Level Sets of Sobolev and BV Functions},
  author = {Jean Bourgain and Mikhail V. Korobkov and Jan Kristensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.4408},
  year   = {2015}
}