Sobolev functions without compactly supported approximations

DOI10.2140/APDE.2022.15.1991MaRDI QIDQ6339235arXivFDO

Authors Giona Veronelli

Publication date 22 April 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/APDE.2022.15.1991

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

arXiv classification

math.APmath.DGmath.FA

Abstract: A basilar property and a useful tool in the theory of Sobolev spaces is the density of smooth compactly supported functions in the space $W^{k,p}(R^n)$ (i.e. the functions with weak derivatives of orders $0$ to $k$ in $L^p$). On Riemannian manifolds, it is well known that the same property remains valid under suitable geometric assumptions. However, on a complete non-compact manifold it can fail to be true in general, as we prove in this paper. This settles an open problem raised for instance by E. Hebey [ extit{Nonlinear analysis on manifolds: Sobolev spaces and inequalities}, Courant Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 5, 1999, pp. 48-49].

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