Isometric Lattice Homomorphisms between Sobolev Spaces

Abstract

Given bounded domains $\Omega_1$ and $\Omega_2$ in $\mathds{R}^N$ and an isometry $T$ from $W^{1,p}(\Omega_1)$ to $W^{1,p}(\Omega_2)$, we give sufficient conditions ensuring that $T$ corresponds to a rigid motion of the space, i.e., $Tu = \pm (u \circ \xi)$ for an isometry $\xi$, and that the domains are congruent. More general versions of the involved results are obtained along the way.