Higher order weighted Sobolev spaces on the real line for strongly degenerate weights. Application to variational problems in elasticity of beams

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35)

Abstract: For one-dimensional interval and integrable weight function

w

we define via completion a weighted Sobolev space

H_{m u_{w}}^{m, p}

of arbitrary integer order

m

. The weights in consideration may suffer strong degeneration so that, in general, functions

u

from

H_{m u_{w}}^{m, p}

do not have weak derivatives. This contribution is focussed on studying the continuity properties of functions

u

at a chosen internal point

x_{0}

to which we attribute a notion of criticality of order

k

and with respect to the weight

w

. For non-critical points

x_{0}

we formulate a local embedding result that guarantees continuity of functions

u

or their derivatives. Conversely, we employ duality theory to show that criticality of

x_{0}

furnishes a smooth approximation of functions in

H_{m u_{w}}^{m, p}

admitting jump-type discontinuities at

x_{0}

. The work concludes with demonstration of established results in the context of variational problem in elasticity theory of beams with degenerate width distribution.

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