Brezis: The fascinating homotopy structure of Sobolev spaces

Brezis, Haïm:
The fascinating homotopy structure of Sobolev spaces
Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni Serie 9 14 (2003), fasc. n.3, p. 207-217, (English)
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We discuss recent developments in the study of the homotopy classes for the Sobolev spaces $W^{1,p} (M;N)$. In particular, we report on the work of H. Brezis - Y. Li [5] and F.B. Hang - F.H. Lin [9].

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