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Examples
In higher dimensions, it is no longer true that, for example, \(W^{1,1}\) contains only continuous functions. For example, \(|x|^{-1} \in W^{1,1}(\mathbb{B}^3)\) where \(\mathbb{B}^3\) is the unit ball in three dimensions. For \(k > n/p\), the space \(W^{k,p}(\Omega)\) will contain only continuous functions, but for which \(k\) this is already true depends both on \(p\) and on the dimension. For example, as can be easily checked using spherical polar coordinates for the function \(f : \mathbb{B}^n \to \Bbb R \cup \{\infty \}\) defined on the $n$-dimensional ball we have:
\[f(x) = | x |^{-\alpha} \in W^{k,p}(\mathbb{B}^n) \Longleftrightarrow \alpha < \tfrac{n}{p} - k.\]
Intuitively, the blow-up of $f$ at 0 counts for less when $n$ is large since the unit ball has more outside and less inside in higher dimensions.
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