Ein Kriterium f�r die Approximierbarkeit von Funktionen aus sobolewschen R�umen durch glatte Funktionen

1981

The present paper provides a necessary and sufficient criterion for an element of a Sobolev space W k p (Ω) to be approximated in the Sobolev norm by Ck(En)-smooth functions. Here Ω is a bounded open set of n-dimensional Euclidean space En with convex closure $$\bar \Omega$$ and boundary ∂Ω having n-dimensional Lebesgue measure zero. No further boundary regularity (such as e.g. the segment property) is required.Our main tools are the Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions and a slightly strengthened version of a well-known extension theorem of Whitney.This work was inspired by and is very close in spirit to the pertinent parts of Calderon-Zygmund [6].