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Sobolev topology on essentially compactly supported Sobolev-"functions"

The locally convex space of essentially compactly-supported $p$-integrable "functions" $\operatorname{L}_{\mathrm{comp}}^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R})$ is defined as the set $$ \bigcup_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \left\{ f \in L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R}):\, \operatorname{ess-supp}(f)\subseteq [-n,n]^d \right\}, $$ topologized with the injective limit topology in the category of LCSs with continuous linear maps as morphisms, where the colimit is taken over the injective system $$\left\{L^p(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R}):\, \operatorname{ess-supp}(f)\subseteq [-n,n]^d\right\}_{n \in \mathbb{N}}.$$

Fix a $k \in \mathbb{N}$, $1\leq p<\infty$ and let $W^{k,p}_{\mathrm{comp}}(\mathbb{R}^d):=W^{k,p}(\mathbb{R}^d) \cap \operatorname{L}_{\mathrm{comp}}^p$. How are the subspace topologies on $W^{k,p}_{\mathrm{comp}}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ comparable? Is the subspace topology induced by restricting the subspace topology on $L^p_{\mathrm{comp}}(\mathbb{R}^d,\mathbb{R})$ to $W^{k,p}_{\mathrm{comp}}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ at-least as fine than the one obtained by restricting the Sobolev topology $W^{k,p}$ to $W^{k,p}_{\mathrm{comp}}(\mathbb{R}^d)$?

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