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

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N5.A4zbMATH Open1117.46024arXivmath/0611581MaRDI QIDQ871725FDOQ871725

Fengbo Hang

Publication date: 20 March 2007

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

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 $W^{1,2}(M,N)$.

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

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldsSobolev spacesweak closuresmooth maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• The Dirichlet energy of mappings from \(B^3\) into a manifold: density results and gap phenomenon
• Sobolev Mappings between Manifolds and Metric Spaces
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• Approximation of sobolev mappings
• Sequential weak approximation for maps of finite Hessian energy
• Connecting rational homotopy type singularities
• Multiple valued Jacobi fields
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• Sobolev mappings, degree, homotopy classes and rational homology spheres

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