Joachim Naumann
Preprint series: Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin (ISSN 0863-0976), 36
MSC 2000
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35A99 None of the above, but in this section
Abstract
The
paper gives a review on some works which led to the invention of the notion
of "Sobolev space". Starting from works on the justification of the Dirichlet
principle, we discuss a number of important contributions which form the
origins of this function space.
Keywords:Dirichlet
principle, absolute continuity, generalized derivative, Sobolev space