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Weak differentiability of metric space valued Sobolev maps

Functional Analysis 2023-03-31 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that Sobolev maps with values in a dual Banach space can be characterized in terms of weak derivatives in a weak* sense. Since every metric space embeds isometrically into a dual Banach space, this implies a characterization of metric space valued Sobolev maps in terms of such derivatives. Furthermore, we investigate for which target spaces Sobolev maps are weak* differentiable almost everywhere.

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@article{arxiv.2303.17303,
  title  = {Weak differentiability of metric space valued Sobolev maps},
  author = {Paul Creutz and Nikita Evseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.17303},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages

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