Extension of smooth functions from finitely connected planar domains
Authors:
Nahum Zobin
Affiliation:
(1) Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Abstract:
Consider the Sobolev space W ∞k (Ω) of functions with bounded kth derivatives defined in a planar domain. We study the problem of extendability of functions from W ∞k (Ω) to the whole ℝ2 with preservation of class, i.e., surjectivity of the restriction operator W ∞k (ℝ2) → W ∞k (Ω).