Weak derivative of $\operatorname{sgn}(x_1)$

Question

Let $x\in \mathbb{R}^{n}, x = (x_1,\ldots,x_n)$, and $f(x) = \operatorname{sgn}(x_{1})$. Is $f$ weakly differentiable on $U = B(0,1)$, i.e. unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, and what is the weak derivative?

Answer 1

We see that $ sgn(x) = 2H(x) -1 $ where $ H $ is the Heaviside function with $ H(0) = \frac{1}{2}$. Then distribution derivative of $ sgn $ would be $ 2\delta_x $ which is not induced by any function. So $f$ is not weakly differentiable.