Support and almost-everywhere stability of weak partial derivatives #
Three elementary facts used when weak derivatives produced on small sets are combined on a larger one: a weak derivative may be replaced by any function equal to it almost everywhere on the domain; the product of a locally integrable function with a compactly supported continuous function is integrable on the domain; and a set integral of a function supported in a common subset does not see the ambient set.
A weak partial derivative may be replaced by any function that agrees with
it almost everywhere on the domain: the defining integral identity only sees
the values of the derivative through the ambient measure restricted to U.
A locally integrable function times a compactly supported continuous function is integrable on a measurable domain containing the support of the continuous factor.
A set integral of a function that vanishes off a set S agrees on any two
ambient sets containing S: the integrand is invisible outside S, so neither
ambient set contributes anything beyond it.