COMPLEMENTS TO THE PAPER “LIFTING, DEGREE AND THE DISTRIBUTIONAL JACOBIAN REVISITED” JEAN BOURGAIN(1), HAIM BREZIS(2),(3) AND PETRU MIRONESCU(4) 1. Existence of a degree and optimal estimates. Let 0 < s < ∞, 1 ≤ p < ∞ and set X = W s,p(SN ;SN ). We say that there is a (topological) degree in X if a) C∞(SN ;SN ) is dense in X; b) the mapping g 7? deg g, defined on C∞(SN ;SN ), extends by continuity to X. We recall the following result, which is part of the folklore: Lemma 1.1. There is a degree in X if and only if sp ≥ N . Proof. Property a) holds for each s and p. When s is not an integer and sp < N , this was proved in [15]. When s = 1 and p < N , this assertion can be found in [4]; the same argument holds when s ≥ 2 is an integer and sp < N . When sp > N , property a) follows immediately from the embedding W s,p ?? C0. Finally, property a) when sp = N is essentially established in [13].
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