A new obstruction to the extension problem for Sobolev maps between manifolds

DOI10.1007/S11784-014-0185-0MaRDI QIDQ490045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabrice Béthuel

Publication date 21 January 2015

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4614

zbMATH Keywords

extension problemSobolev maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Distributions and generalized functions on nonlinear spaces (46T30) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Abstract: The main result of the present paper, combined with earlier results of Hardt and Lin settles the extension problem for $W^{1,p}(mathcalM,mathcalN)$, where $mathcalM$ and $mathcalN$ are compact riemannian manfolds, $mathcalM$ having non-empty smooth boundary and assuming moreover that $mathcalN$ is simply connected. The main question which is studied is the following: Given a map in the trace space $W^{1-frac1p,p}(partialmathcalM,mathcalN)$, does it possess an extension in $W^{1,p}(mathcalM,mathcalN)$? We show that the answer is negative in the case $mathfrak{p}_c+1leqp<m=mdim,mathcalM$, where the number $mathfrak{p}_c$ is related to the topology of $mathcalN$. We also adress the case $mathcalN$ is not simply connected, providing various results and rising some open questions. In particular, we stress in that case the relationship between the extension problem and the lifting problem to the universal covering manifold.

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