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Partial derivatives in the nonsmooth setting

Functional Analysis 2020-12-08 v1 Differential Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

We study partial derivatives on the product of two metric measure structures, in particular in connection with calculus via modules as proposed by the first named author. Our main results are 1) The extension to this non-smooth framework of Schwarz's theorem about symmetry of mixed second derivatives, 2) a quite complete set of results relating the property fW2,2(\X×\Y)f\in W^{2,2}(\X\times\Y) on one side with that of f(,y)W2,2(\X)f(\cdot,y)\in W^{2,2}(\X) and f(x,)W2,2(\Y)f(x,\cdot)\in W^{2,2}(\Y) for a.e.\ y,xy,x respectively on the other. Here \X,\Y\X,\Y are \RCD\RCD spaces so that second order Sobolev spaces are well defined. \end{itemize} These results are in turn based upon the study of Sobolev regularity, and of the underlying notion of differential, for a map with values in a Hilbert module: we mainly apply this notion to the map x\d\syf(x,)x\mapsto\d_\sy f(x,\cdot) in order to build, under the appropriate regularity requirements, its differential \d\sx\d\syf\d_\sx\d_\sy f.

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@article{arxiv.2012.03602,
  title  = {Partial derivatives in the nonsmooth setting},
  author = {Nicola Gigli and Chiara Rigoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03602},
  year   = {2020}
}
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