Optimal Sobolev regularity of roots of polynomials

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Abstract: We study the regularity of the roots of complex univariate polynomials whose coefficients depend smoothly on parameters. We show that any continuous choice of the roots of a Cn−1,1-curve of monic polynomials of degree n is locally absolutely continuous with locally p-integrable derivatives for every 1lep<n/(n−1), uniformly with respect to the coefficients. This result is optimal: in general, the derivatives of the roots of a smooth curve of monic polynomials of degree n are not locally n/(n−1)-integrable, and the roots may have locally unbounded variation if the coefficients are only of class Cn−1,alpha for alpha<1. We also prove a generalization of Ghisi and Gobbino's higher order Glaeser inequalities. We give three applications of the main results: local solvability of a system of pseudo-differential equations, a lifting theorem for mappings into orbit spaces of finite group representations, and a sufficient condition for multi-valued functions to be of Sobolev class W1,p in the sense of Almgren.












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