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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.

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@article{arxiv.2511.02520,
  title  = {Weak derivatives and metric differentiability almost everywhere},
  author = {Nikita Evseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02520},
  year   = {2025}
}
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