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On mollifiers acting between $L^2$ and Sobolev spaces

(I'm reposting here this question from MSE as it didn't receive any answer for two weeks.) Consider a sequence of finite lattices in $\mathbb{R}^n$ defined by $$L_k= [-k,k]^n \cap 2^{-k}\cdot \mathbb{...
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Uniform norm bounds for linear approximation of 1-Lipschitz functions

This problem seems like it should be quite easy/standard, but I've not found a solution written down anywhere. Consider the set of 1-Lipschitz functions on the $[0,d]$ interval. Define the linear ...
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Checking the uniform denseness of a set in $C([0, 1], \mathbb{R}^2)$

Let $\lambda:[0, 1]\to \mathbb{R}$, and $b_{1j}, b_{2j}:[0, 1] \to \mathbb{R}$, $j = 1, \ldots, m$ be smooth functions. Consider the following two sets $$\begin{align*} S_1 &= \left\{ \begin{...
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Can we approximate a vector field on the plane with non-vanishing vector fields in $W^{1,2}$?

Let $V$ be a compactly-supported vector field on $\mathbb{R}^2$, whose zeros inside some open neighbourhood of the closed unit disk $\mathbb{D}^2$ are isolated. Does there exist a sequence of ...
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Construct a dense family in $W^{2,2}(\Omega)\cap W^{1,2}_0(\Omega)$ based on distance functions

Let $\Omega$ be a sufficiently regular domain, for example $\Omega=B(0,r)$, $r>0$, and $m(x)=\textrm{dist}(x,\partial \Omega)$ be the distance to boundary function. Suppose $\mathcal{F}$ is a ...
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Can we stay invertible while approximating linear maps in Sobolev spaces?

Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be an open bounded domain with a smooth boundary. Fix $1<p<n$. Let $A \in W^{1,p}(\Omega;\text{End}(\mathbb{R}^n)) \cap C(\Omega;\text{End}(\mathbb{R}^n))$ ...
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