Thesis--Bonn. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-94).

Thesis--Bonn. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-94).

This thesis provides sufficient conditions for total differentiability almost everywhere of a real-valued function of a complex variable defined on a bounded region in IRn. This thesis extends H. Rademacher's 1918 results in IR2 which culminated in total differentiability, to IRn

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-89). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-89). Also available on the Internet.

The thesis consists of two papers and one preprint. The two papers are de- voted to the approximation properties of Lipschitz-free spaces. In the first pa- per we prove that the Lipschitz-free space over a doubling metric space has the bounded approximation property. In particular, the Lipschitz-free space over a closed subset of Rn has the bounded approximation property. We also show that the Lipschitz-free spaces over ℓ1 and over ℓn 1 admit a monotone finite-dimensional Schauder decomposition. In the second paper we improve this work and obtain even a Schauder basis in the Lipschitz-free spaces over ℓ1 and ℓn 1 . The topic of the preprint is rigidity of ℓ∞ and ℓn ∞ with respect to uniformly differentiable map- pings. Our main result is a non-linear analogy of the classical result on rigidity of ℓ∞ with respect to non-weakly compact linear operators by Rosenthal, and it generalises the theorem on non-complementability of c0 in ℓ∞ due to Phillips. 1