Closure of smooth maps in W^1,p(B^3;S^2)

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Authors Augusto C. Ponce, Jean Van Schaftingen

Publication date 1 September 2011

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4491

zbMATH Keywords

density of smooth functionsSobolev spaces on manifolds

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: For every $2<p<3$, we show that $uin{W}^{1,p}(B^3;S^2)$ can be strongly approximated by maps in $C^{i}nfty(Bar{B}^3;S^2)$ if, and only if, the distributional Jacobian of $u$ vanishes identically. This result was originally proved by Bethuel-Coron-Demengel-Helein, but we present a different strategy which is motivated by the $W^{2,p}$-case.

Review text

The paper deals with an alternative approach to the rather surprising phenomenon of density of smooth (up to the boundary of \(B^3\)) functions in \(W^{1,p}(B^3;S^2)\) in dependence on the exponent \(p\). While the density is true if \(p\geq 3\) or \(1\leq p<2\), it generally fails in the case \(2\leq p<3\). In the last case, the necessary and sufficient condition for the approximation of \(u\in W^{1,p}(B^3;S^2)\) by a smooth function reads as the vanishing of the distributional Jacobian of \(u\). The authors suitably use and extend procedures known for the case \(p=2\) for identification of the singularities responsible for spoiling the approximation properties to get the claim in the whole range \(2<p<3\).

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