2017/01/11 by Luca Rondi · 4 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Boundary (topology) #Bounded deformation #Bounded function #Bounded variation #Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities #Counterexample #Measure (data warehouse) #Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations #Open set #Optimization and Variational Analysis #Variation (astronomy) #math.AP #msc:46E35. #msc:49Q15
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/mana.201600004
published in Mathematische Nachrichten 290(11-12), 1830-1839 (Wiley) · 12 pages. To appear in Mathematische Nachrichten
openalex publication_date 2017/01/11 · arxiv created 2017/02/13 · arxiv updated 2017/12/19 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The aim of this short note is to give an alternative proof, which applies to functions of bounded variation in arbitrary domains, of an inequality by Maz'ya that improves Friedrichs inequality. A remarkable feature of such a proof is that it is rather elementary, if the basic background in the theory of functions of bounded variation is assumed. Nevertheless, it allows to extend all the previously known versions of this fundamental inequality to a completely general version. In fact the inequality presented here is optimal in several respects. As already observed in previous proofs, the crucial step is to provide conditions under which a function of bounded variation on a bounded open set, extended to zero outside, has bounded variation on the whole space. We push such conditions to their limits. In fact, we give a sufficient and necessary condition if the open set has a boundary with σ‐finite surface measure and a sufficient condition if the open set is fully arbitrary. Via a counterexample we show that such a general sufficient condition is sharp.