The notion of functions dependent locally on finitely many coordinates plays an important role in the theory of smoothness and renormings on Banach spaces, especially when higher smoothness (C∞) is involved. In this note we survey most of the main results in this area, and indicate many old as well as new open problems.

We introduce a notion of a function of finite fractional variation and characterize such functions together with their weak $\sigma$-additive fractional derivatives. Next, we use these functions to study differential equations of fractional order, containing a $\sigma$-additive term—we prove existence and uniqueness of a solution as well as derive a Cauchy formula for the solution. We apply these results to impulsive equations, i.e. equations containing the Dirac measures.

We introduce a sort of "local" Morrey spaces and show an existence and uniqueness theorem for the Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains for linear second order elliptic partial differential equations with principal coefficients "close" to functions having derivatives in such spaces.

The distributional $k$-dimensional Jacobian of a map $u$ in the Sobolev space $W^{1,k-1}$ which takes values in the sphere $S^{k-1}$ can be viewed as the boundary of a rectifiable current of codimension $k$ carried by (part of) the singularity of $u$ which is topologically relevant. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the range of the Jacobian operator; in particular, we show that any boundary $M$ of codimension $k$ can be realized as Jacobian of a Sobolev map valued in $S^{k-1}$. In case $M$ is polyhedral, the map we construct...

In this work, we establish new Furi–Pera type fixed point theorems for the sum and the product of abstract nonlinear operators in Banach algebras; one of the operators is completely continuous and the other one is $𝒟$-Lipchitzian. The Kuratowski measure of noncompactness is used together with recent fixed point principles. Applications to solving nonlinear functional integral equations are given. Our results complement and improve recent ones in [10], [11], [17].

Let ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of non-decreasing functions from $[0,+\infty )$ into $[0,+\infty )$. Under some suitable hypotheses of ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$, we will prove that if $g\in L^p\left({ℝ}^N\right)$, $1<p<+\infty$, satisfies ${lim\; inf}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy<+\infty$, then $g\in W^{1,p}\left({ℝ}^N\right)$ and moreover ${lim}_{n\to \infty }{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{F}_n{\left(\right|g\left(x\right)-g\left(y\right)\left|\right)/|x-y|}^{N+p}dxdy=K_{N,p}{\int }_{{ℝ}^N}{\left|\nabla g\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx$, where $K_{N,p}$ is a positive constant depending only on $N$ and $p$. This extends some results in J. Bourgain and H-M. Nguyen [A new characterization of Sobolev spaces, C. R. Acad Sci. Paris, Ser. I 343 (2006) 75-80] and H-M. Nguyen [Some new characterizations of Sobolev spaces, J. Funct. Anal. 237 (2006) 689-720]. We also present some partial results...