Dense Subsets of H1/2(S2, S1)

We prove that the maps from S ² intoS ¹ having a finite number of isolated singularities ofdegree ±1 are dense for the strong topology inH ^1/2(S ², S ¹). We also prove that smooth maps are densein H ^1/2(S ², S ¹)for the sequentially weak topology andthat this is no more the case in H ^s (S ², S ¹) for s> 1/2.