Weak derivatives and metric differentiability almost everywhere
Functional Analysis
2025-11-05 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
It is known that a Lipschitz continuous map from the Euclidean domain to a metric space is metrically differentiable almost everywhere. When the metric space is a Banach space dual to separable, the metric differential has its linear counterpart -- weak* differential. However, for an arbitrary metric or Banach space, a Lipschitz map is not necessarily weak* differentiable. This paper introduces an approach based on a concept of weak weak* derivatives. This framework yields a linear representation for the metric differential, allowing for its calculation as the norm of an associated linear operator.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.02520,
title = {Weak derivatives and metric differentiability almost everywhere},
author = {Nikita Evseev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02520},
year = {2025}
}