On Fréchet differentiability of Lipschitz maps between Banach spaces

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DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2003.157.257zbMATH Open1171.46313arXivmath/0402160OpenAlexW2151815899MaRDI QIDQ1394580FDOQ1394580


Authors: J. Lindenstrauss, David Preiss Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2003

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A well-known open question is whether every countable collection of Lipschitz functions on a Banach space X with separable dual has a common point of Frechet differentiability. We show that the answer is positive for some infinite-dimensional X. Previously, even for collections consisting of two functions this has been known for finite-dimensional X only (although for one function the answer is known to be affirmative in full generality). Our aims are achieved by introducing a new class of null sets in Banach spaces (called Gamma-null sets), whose definition involves both the notions of category and measure, and showing that the required differentiability holds almost everywhere with respect to it. We even obtain existence of Fr'echet derivatives of Lipschitz functions between certain infinite-dimensional Banach spaces;no such results have been known previously. Our main result states that a Lipschitz map between separable Banach spaces is Fr'echet differentiable Gamma-almost everywhere provided that it is regularly Gateaux differentiable Gamma-almost everywhere and the Gateaux derivatives stay within a norm separable space of operators. It is easy to see that Lipschitz maps of X to spaces with the Radon-Nikodym property are Gateaux differentiable Gamma-almost everywhere. Moreover, Gateaux differentiability implies regular Gateaux differentiability with exception of another kind of negligible sets, so-called sigma-porous sets. The answer to the question is therefore positive in every space in which every sigma-porous set is Gamma-null. We show that this holds for C(K) with K countable compact, the Tsirelson space and for all subspaces of c0, but that it fails for Hilbert spaces.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402160




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