Distances between homotopy classes of W^s,p(S^N;S^N)^
The article deals with homotopy classes of discontinuous maps in \({\mathbb S}^N\). As is known, for a discontinuous map \(f:\;{\mathbb S}^N \to {\mathbb S}^N\) the degree is defined by Kronecker's formula NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\text{deg}\, f = \int_{{\mathbb S}^N} \text{det}\, (\nabla f).NEWLINE\]NEWLINE This definition is correct only under some assumptions about the character of gaps of \(f\); in the article the considered maps are from \(W^{s,p}({\mathbb S}^N,{\mathbb S}^N)\). More precisely, the following classes of maps from \(W^{s,p}({\mathbb S}^N,{\mathbb S}^N)\) are studied: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE{\mathcal E}_d := \{f \in W^{s,p} \in W^{s,p}({\mathbb S}^N,{\mathbb S}^N):\;\text{deg}\, f = d\}, \quad d \in {\mathbb Z}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The main aim of the article is to calculate or estimate the two quantities NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\text{dist}_{W^{s,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2}) = \inf_{f \in {\mathcal E}_{d_1}} \inf_{g \in {\mathcal E}_{d_2}}\;d_{W^{s,p}}(f,g)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\text{Dist}_{W^{s,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2}) = \sup_{f \in {\mathcal E}_{d_1}} \inf_{g \in {\mathcal E}_{d_2}}\;d_{W^{s,p}} (f,g)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE (\(d_{W^{s,p}}(f,g) = \|f - g\|_{W^{s,p}}\)) and also the Hausdorff distance \(H\text{-}\,\text{dist}_{W^{1/p,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2})\). For \(N = 1\), it is proved (1) the formula NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\text{dist}_{W^{1,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2}) = 2^{(1/p)+1} \pi^{(1/p)-1} |d_1 - d_2|, \quad d_1, d_2 \in {\mathbb Z},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and it is described when this infimum is achieved or not, (2) some estimates for \(\text{dist}_{W^{s,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2})\) with \(s > 1\) and, in particular, the equality \(\text{dist}_{W^{1/p,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2}) = 0\), (3) similar statements for the Hausdorff distance between \({\mathcal E}_{d_1}\) and \({\mathcal E}_{d_2}\). Similar results are obtained for \(N \geq 2\). The authors also state three open problems, in particular, the question about the equality \(\text{dist}_{W^{s,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2}) = \text{Dist}_{W^{s,p}}({\mathcal E}_{d_1},{\mathcal E}_{d_2})\).
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