English

Pointwise differentiability of higher order for distributions

Functional Analysis 2021-03-24 v2 Analysis of PDEs Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

For distributions, we build a theory of higher order pointwise differentiability comprising, for order zero, {\L}ojasiewicz's notion of point value. Results include Borel regularity of differentials, higher order rectifiability of the associated jets, a Rademacher-Stepanov type differentiability theorem, and a Lusin type approximation. A substantial part of this development is new also for zeroth order. Moreover, we establish a Poincar\'e inequality involving the natural norms of negative order of differentiability. As a corollary, we characterise pointwise differentiability in terms of point values of distributional partial derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.1803.10855,
  title  = {Pointwise differentiability of higher order for distributions},
  author = {Ulrich Menne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10855},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

33 pages, no figures. Additions and changes in version 2: (1) description of the relation to asymptotic expansions; (2) alternative proof of Theorem E; (3) minor corrections in 2.2, 2.16, 2.23, and 3.7; (4) updates of acknowledgements, references, and affiliations; (5) minor expository improvements. Comments of R. Estrada and a referee induced (1)+(2) and (5), respectively

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