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On nowhere differentiability of functions that just barely fail to be Lipschitz

By Rademacher’s theorem, Lipschitz functions are differentiable almost everywhere. I am wondering how badly this pointwise differentiability fails for functions that “just barely” fail to be Lipschitz....
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Characterisation of Sobolev spaces using their Lipschitz approximations

Let $f \in W^{1, p} (\mathbb R^n)$. A classical approximation theorem (see for instance, the book by Evans and Gariepy) says that we can approximate $f$ by Lipschitz functions, in the sense that for ...
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Is the $W^{1, \infty}$ limit of differentiable functions also differentiable?

Let $f_n$ be a sequence of differentiable functions on $[0, 1]$ with $f_n \to f$ uniformly for some (necessarily) continuous $f$. $f'_n - g \to 0$ in $L^{\infty}$ for some measurable $g$. Is it true ...
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Is the intersection of two Caccioppoli (i.e. finite perimeter) sets Caccioppoli?

Recall that we say that a bounded measurable set $S\subset\mathbb R^n$ is said to be Caccioppoli if the indicator function $1_S$ is BV, and we set $$ \operatorname{perim}(S)=\| \nabla 1_S\|_{TV} $$ ...
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How far can a continuous, almost everywhere differentiable function be from being a Sobolev function?

Let $\Omega$ be the open unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$. Consider the set $\mathcal D$ of continuous functions $f:\Omega \to \mathbb R$ that are differentiable a.e, and with $|\nabla f| \leq 1$ wherever $...
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Measure of the boundary of an BV-extension domain: do we have $|\nabla Eu|(\partial \Omega)=0?$

Let $\Omega\subset \Bbb R^d$ be open. The space $BV(\Omega)$ consists in functions $u\in L^1(\Omega)$ with bounded variation, i.e. $|u|_{BV(\Omega) }<\infty$ where \begin{align}\label{eq:bounded-...
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Does a sequence of Jacobians converge to the 'correct' continuous part plus some controlled singular part?

$\newcommand{\M}{\mathcal{M}}$ $\newcommand{\N}{\mathcal{N}}$ Let $\M,\N$ be two-dimensional smooth, compact, connected, oriented Riemannian manifolds. (with or without boundaries). Let $f_n \in W^{1,...
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Does weak continuity of Jacobians hold for non nondegenerate maps?

$\newcommand{\M}{\mathcal{M}}$ $\newcommand{\N}{\mathcal{N}}$ Let $\M,\N$ be two-dimensional smooth, compact, connected, oriented Riemannian manifolds. (with or without boundaries). Let $f_n \...
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Is a locally invertible weak limit of injective maps injective almost everywhere?

This is a cross-post. Let $\Omega_1,\Omega_2 \subseteq \mathbb R^2$ be open, connected, bounded, with non-empty $C^1$ boundaries. Let $f_n:\bar\Omega_1 \to \bar\Omega_2$ be Lipschitz injective maps ...
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Is Sobolev limit of bijective maps surjective?

This is a cross-post. Let $\Omega_1,\Omega_2 \subseteq \mathbb R^2$ be open, connected, bounded, with non-empty $C^1$ boundaries. Let $f_n:\bar\Omega_1 \to \bar\Omega_2$ be $C^1$ be bijective maps ...
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Difference quotient for functions of bounded variation

Let $u:\mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{R}^N$, $u \in BV(\mathbb{R}^N)$, be a function of bounded variation. We have that the following holds $$(\ast) \qquad \frac{1}{|B_r(0)|}\int_{B_r(0)} \frac{|u(x+z)-...
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Invariance under diffeomorphisms of the Hajlasz-Sobolev spaces

In this post it was shown that if $\Omega$ and $\Omega'$ are diffeomorphic non-empty open domains in some Euclidean space then the corresponding local Sobolev spaces are diffeomorphic with ...
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Sobolev functions on $\mathbb{R}^N$ cannot be discontinuous on a $(N-1)$-dimensional submanifold

How can one prove (or where can I find a proof) that if $u \in W^{1,p}(\Omega)$, where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, then $u$ cannot have a $(N-1)$-manifold of discontinuity points?
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Estimate of the difference quotients in terms of an $L^{1,\infty}$ function

Let $f \colon \mathbb R^d \to \mathbb R$ be a measurable function. Consider the following property: (P) there exist a negligible set $N \subset \mathbb R^d$ and function $T_f \in L^p(\mathbb R^d)$ ...
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Is a function $u\in \mathrm{SBV}(\Omega)$ with these additional properties essentially bounded?

Some related earlier discussion can be found here. Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N$ be open bounded with smooth boundary, $\mathcal H^{N-1}(\partial\Omega)<\infty$ and $u\in SBV(\Omega)$. Then $$ ...