A short proof of the self-improving regularity of quasiregular mappings

Faraco, Daniel; Zhong, Xiao

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07931-1

A short proof of the self-improving regularity of quasiregular mappings
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Abstract:

We provide a short proof of a theorem, due to Iwaniec and Martin (1993) and Iwaniec (1992), on the self-improving integrability of quasiregular mappings.

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