Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2001 pp. 321-330.

Topology of Sobolev Mappings

Authors: Fengbo Hang and Fanghua Lin
Author institution: Courant Institute

Summary: This paper addresses some topological and analytical issues concerning Sobolev mappings between compact Riemannian manifolds. Among the results we obtained are unified proofs of various generalizations of results obtained in a recent work of Brezis and Li. In particular we solved two conjectures in \ct{BL}. We also give a topological obstruction for the weak sequential density of smooth maps in a given Sobolev mapping space. Finally we show a necessary and sufficient topological condition under which the smooth maps are strongly dense in the Sobolev spaces. The earlier result, Theorem 1 of \ct{B2}, was shown to be not correct.

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