On the weak limits of smooth maps for the Dirichlet energy between manifolds

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N5.A4MaRDI QIDQ871725zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fengbo Hang

Publication date 20 March 2007

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611581

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldssmooth mapsSobolev spacesweak closure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We identify all the weak sequential limits of smooth maps in $W^{1,2}(M,N)$. In particular, this implies a necessary and sufficient topological condition for smooth maps to be weakly sequentially dense in $W^{1,2}(M,N)$.

Review text

Let \( M \) and \( N \) be smooth compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. The author gives a description of the space of weak sequential limits of smooth maps in \( W^{1,2}(M,N) \). In particular, he obtains a necessary and sufficient topological condition for smooth maps to be weakly sequentially dense in \( W^{1,2}(M,N) \). The reader is assumed to be thoroughly familiar with [\textit{F. B. Hang} and \textit{F. H. Lin}, Acta Math.\ 191, No.\,1, 55--107 (2003; Zbl 1061.46032)], since several definitions or results therein are used in the present article.

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