Sobolev-Slobodeckij Spaces on Compact Manifolds, Revisited

Ali Behzadan and Michael Holst
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Ali Behzadan: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA
Michael Holst: Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093, USA

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-103

Abstract: In this manuscript, we present a coherent rigorous overview of the main properties of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces of sections of vector bundles on compact manifolds; results of this type are scattered through the literature and can be difficult to find. A special emphasis has been put on spaces with noninteger smoothness order, and a special attention has been paid to the peculiar fact that for a general nonsmooth domain Ω in R n , 0 < t < 1 , and 1 < p < ∞ , it is not necessarily true that W 1 , p ( Ω ) ↪ W t , p ( Ω ) . This has dire consequences in the multiplication properties of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces and subsequently in the study of Sobolev spaces on manifolds. We focus on establishing certain fundamental properties of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces that are particularly useful in better understanding the behavior of elliptic differential operators on compact manifolds. In particular, by introducing notions such as “geometrically Lipschitz atlases” we build a general framework for developing multiplication theorems, embedding results, etc. for Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces on compact manifolds. To the authors’ knowledge, some of the proofs, especially those that are pertinent to the properties of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces of sections of general vector bundles, cannot be found in the literature in the generality appearing here.

Keywords: Sobolev spaces; compact manifolds; tensor bundles; differential operators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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