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Sibirsk. Mat. Zh., 2025 Volume 66, Number 4, Pages 596–612 (Mi smj7965)

New properties of composition operators in Sobolev spaces on Riemannian manifolds

S. K. Vodopyanov

Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: An equivalent description is obtained for homeomorphisms $\varphi$ of a domain $\Omega$ in a Riemannian space $\Bbb{M}$ onto a metric space $\Bbb{Y}$, which guarantees the boundedness of the composition operator from the space of Lipschitz functions $\operatorname{Lip}(\Bbb{Y})$ into the homogeneous Sobolev space on $\Bbb{M}$ with first generalized derivatives integrable to the power $1\leq q\leq\infty$, along with other new properties of such homeomorphisms. The new approach makes it possible to effectively prove a theorem on homeomorphisms of domains in an arbitrary Riemannian space $\Bbb{M}$ that induce a bounded composition operator between Sobolev spaces with first generalized derivatives. The new proof, which is considerably shorter compared to the original one, relies on a minimal set of tools and allows us to establish new properties of the homeomorphisms under study.

Keywords: Riemannian space, class of Sobolev mappings with values in a metric space, approximate differentiability, distortion of a mapping, generalized quasiconformal mapping, composition operator.

UDC: 517.518:517.54

MSC: 35R30

Received: 04.04.2025
Revised: 24.05.2025
Accepted: 26.05.2025

DOI: 10.33048/smzh.2025.66.404


 English version:
Siberian Mathematical Journal, 2025, 66:4, 914–927


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