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MiS Preprint
78/2014
On the differentiability of Lipschitz functions with respect to measures in the Euclidean space
Giovanni Alberti and Andrea Marchese
Abstract
Rademacher theorem states that every Lipschitz function on the Euclidean space is differentiable almost everywhere, where "almost everywhere" refers to the Lebesgue measure. Our main result is an extension of this theorem where the Lebesgue measure is replaced by an arbitrary measure $\mu$.
In particular we show that the differentiability properties of Lipschitz functions at $\mu$-almost every point are related to the decompositions of $\mu$ in terms of rectifiable one-dimensional measures.
In the process we obtain a differentiability result for Lipschitz functions with respect to (measures associated to) $k$-dimensional normal currents, which we use to extend certain formulas involving normal currents and maps of class $C^1$ to Lipschitz maps.
