A characterization of maps in \(H^ 1(B^ 3,S^ 2)\) which can be approximated by smooth maps

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30292-XzbMath0708.58004MaRDI QIDQ920448

Fabrice Bethuel

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_1990__7_4_269_0

zbMATH Keywords

Sobolev space; density of smooth maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46E35: Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems

58C25: Differentiable maps on manifolds

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