 Continuous weak gradient gives a C1 representative

If a locally integrable function has weak derivatives represented by a continuous vector field $g$, it has a representative $U\in C^1$ with $\nabla U=g$. The assertion is local, so work on a ball compactly contained in the domain and regularize using a mollifier. The regularizations satisfy the segment identity $u_{\epsilon }(x)-u_{\epsilon }(y)={\int }_0^1\nabla u_{\epsilon }(y+t(x-y))\cdot (x-y)dt$. Averaging over a smaller ball in $y$ fixes the additive constant through local $L^1$ convergence. The gradients converge uniformly on compact sets, so the averaged identity gives local uniform convergence to $U$. Passing to the limit on each segment then gives $U(x+h)-U(x)-g(x)\cdot h=o(|h|)$. Continuity of $g$ proves that $U$ is continuously differentiable.