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On the Lavrentiev Gap for Manifold-Valued Maps

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Abstract

Abstract We characterize necessary and sufficient conditions ensuring approximation by smooth maps in the Sobolev space $$W^{1,\varphi }$$ W 1 , φ between suitable compact manifolds, where the prototypical example of Young function $$\varphi $$ φ is the double-phase integrand.

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Authors: Carlo Alberto Antonini, Filomena De Filippis, Cintia Pacchiano Camacho

Institutions: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Milan, University of Salzburg