Existence of p harmonic multiple valued maps into a separable Hilbert space
Philippe Bouafia, Thierry De Pauw, Jordan Goblet · Annales de l’institut Fourier · 2015
We study the elementary properties of multiple valued maps between two metric spaces: their measurability, Lebesgue integrability, continuity, Lipschitz continuity, Lipschitz extension, and differentiability in case the range and domain are linear. We discuss F.J. Almgren’s embedding Theorem and we prove a new, more general, embedding from which a Fréchet-Kolmogorov compactness Theorem ensues for multiple valued L p spaces. In turn, we introduce an intrinsic definition of Sobolev multiple valued maps into Hilbert spaces, together with the relevant Sobolev extension property, Poincaré inequality, Luzin type approximation by Lipschitz maps, trace theory, and the analog of Rellich compactness. As a corollary we obtain an existence result for the Dirichlet problem of p harmonic Hilbert space multiple valued maps of m variables.