Weakly Differentiable Functions: Sobolev Spaces and Functions of Bounded Variation

The term "weakly differentiable functions" in the title refers to those inte­ n grable functions defined on an open subset of R whose partial derivatives in the sense of distributions are either LP functions or (signed) measures with finite total variation. The former class of functions comprises what is now known as Sobolev spaces, though its origin, traceable to the early 1900s, predates the contributions by Sobolev. Both classes of functions, Sobolev spaces and the space of functions of ...