Capacities in metric spaces

We discuss the potential theory related to the variational capacity and the Sobolev capacity on metric measure spaces. We prove our results in the axiomatic framework of [17].46E35, 31C15, 31C45     

New Sobolev spaces via generalized Poincaré inequalities on metric measure spaces

In this paper, we introduce some new function spaces of Sobolev type on metric measure spaces. These new function spaces are defined by variants of Poincaré inequalities associated with generalized approximations of the identity, and they generalize the classical Sobolev spaces on Euclidean spaces. We then obtain two characterizations of these new Sobolev spaces including the characterization in terms of a variant of local sharp maximal functions associated with generalized approximations of the identity. For the well-known Hajłasz–Sobolev spaces on metric measure spaces, we also establish some new characterizations related to generalized approximations of the identity. Finally, we clarify the relations between the Sobolev-type spaces introduced in this paper and the Hajłasz–Sobolev spaces on metric measure spaces.     

Some equivalent definitions of high order Sobolev spaces on stratified groups and generalizations to metric spaces

Recently, in the article [LW], the authors use the notion of polynomials in metric spaces of homogeneous type (in the sense of Coifman-Weiss) to prove a relationship between high order Poincaré inequalities and representation formulas involving fractional integrals of high order, assuming only that is a doubling measure and that geodesics exist. Motivated by this and by recent work in [H], [FHK], [KS] and [FLW] about first order Sobolev spaces in metric spaces, we define Sobolev spaces of high order in such metric spaces . We prove that several definitions are equivalent if functions of polynomial type exist. In the case of stratified groups, where polynomials do exist, we show that our spaces are equivalent to the Sobolev spaces defined by Folland and Stein in [FS]. Our results also give some alternate definitions of Sobolev spaces in the classical Euclidean case. Received: 10 February 1999 / Published online: 1 February 2002     

Sobolev embeddings in metric measure spaces with variable dimension

In this article we study metric measure spaces with variable dimension. We consider Lebesgue spaces on these sets, and embeddings of the Riesz potential in these spaces. We also investigate Hajłasz-type Sobolev spaces, and prove Sobolev and Trudinger inequalities with optimal exponents. All of these questions lead naturally to function spaces with variable exponents. Supported the Research Council of Norway, Project 160192/V30.     

Pointwise behaviour of Orlicz–Sobolev functions

We study the regularity of Orlicz–Sobolev functions on metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure. We show that each Orlicz–Sobolev function is quasicontinuous and has Lebesgue points outside a set of capacity zero and that the discrete maximal operator is bounded in the Orlicz–Sobolev space. We also show that if the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator is bounded in the Orlicz space $L^{\Psi}(X)We study the regularity of Orlicz–Sobolev functions on metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure. We show that each Orlicz–Sobolev function is quasicontinuous and has Lebesgue points outside a set of capacity zero and that the discrete maximal operator is bounded in the Orlicz–Sobolev space. We also show that if the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator is bounded in the Orlicz space , then each Orlicz–Sobolev function can be approximated by a H?lder continuous function both in the Lusin sense and in norm. The research is supported by the Centre of Excellence Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Physics of the Academy of Finland.     

Embedding theorems and a variational problem for functions on a metric measure space

We use a new method to prove the Sobolev embedding theorem for functions on a metric space and study other questions of the theory of Sobolev spaces on a metric space. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution to a variational problem.     

Sobolev spaces and harmonic maps between singular spaces

Recently Korevaar and Schoen developed a Sobolev theory for maps from smooth (at least ) manifolds into general metric spaces by proving that the weak limit of appropriate average difference quotients is well behaved. Here we extend this theory to functions defined over Lipschitz manifold. As an application we then prove an existence theorem for harmonic maps from Lipschitz manifolds to NPC metric spaces. Received December 6, 1996 / Accepted March 4, 1997     

Characterizations of Sobolev inequalities on metric spaces

We discuss Maz'ya type isocapacitary characterizations of Sobolev inequalities on metric measure spaces.     

New characterizations of Hajlasz-Sobolev spaces on metric spaces

This paper introduces the fractional Sobolev spaces on spaces of homogeneous type,includingmetric spaces and fractals. These Sobolev spaces include the well-known Hajfasz-Sobolev spaces as specialmodels.The author establishes varions chaaracterizations of(sharp)maximal functions for these spaces.Asapplications,the author identifies the fractional Sobolev spaces with some Lipscitz-type spaces.Moreover;some embedding theorems are also given.     

Generalized doubling meets Poincaré

We establish a modified segment inequality on metric spaces that satisfy a generalized volume doubling property. This leads to Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities for such spaces. We also give several examples of spaces that satisfy the generalized doubling condition.     

Musielak-Orlicz-Sobolev spaces with zero boundary values on metric measure spaces

We define and study Musielak-Orlicz-Sobolev spaces with zero boundary values on any metric space endowed with a Borel regular measure. We extend many classical results, including completeness, lattice properties and removable sets, to Musielak-Orlicz-Sobolev spaces on metric measure spaces. We give sufficient conditions which guarantee that a Sobolev function can be approximated by Lipschitz continuous functions vanishing outside an open set. These conditions are based on Hardy type inequalities.     

Mappings of Domains in Rn and Their Metric Tensors

We consider quasi-isometric mappings of domains in multidimensional Euclidean spaces. We establish that a mapping depends continuously in the sense of the topology of Sobolev classes on its metric tensor to within isometry of the space. In the space of metric tensors we take the topology determined by means of almost everywhere convergence. We show that if the metric tensor of a mapping is continuous then the length of the image of a rectifiable curve is determined by the same formula as in the case of mappings with continuous derivatives. (Continuity of the metric tensor of a mapping does not imply continuity of its derivatives.)     

New characterizations of Hajłasz-Sobolev spaces on metric spaces

This paper introduces the fractional Sobolev spaces on spaces of homogeneous type, including metric spaces and fractals. These Sobolev spaces include the well-known Hajłasz-Sobolev spaces as special models. The author establishes various characterizations of (sharp) maximal functions for these spaces. As applications, the author identifies the fractional Sobolev spaces with some Lipscitz-type spaces. Moreover, some embedding theorems are also given.     

Grand Sobolev Spaces on Metric Measure Spaces

Siberian Mathematical Journal - We study the properties of the so-called grand Sobolev spaces on a metric measure space. The introduction of the spaces is motivated by the available...     

Sobolev classes of Banach space-valued functions and quasiconformal mappings

We give a definition for the class of Sobolev functions from a metric measure space into a Banach space. We give various characterizations of Sobolev classes and study the absolute continuity in measure of Sobolev mappings in the “borderline case”. We show under rather weak assumptions on the source space that quasisymmetric homeomorphisms belong to a Sobolev space of borderline degree; in particular, they are absolutely continuous. This leads to an analytic characterization of quasiconformal mappings between Ahlfors regular Loewner spaces akin to the classical Euclidean situation. As a consequence, we deduce that quasisymmetric maps respect the Cheeger differentials of Lipschitz functions on metric measure spaces with borderline Poincaré inequality. J. H. supported by NSF grant DMS9970427. P. K. supported by the Academy of Finland, project 39788. N. S. supported in part by Enterprise Ireland. J. T. T. supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.     

Sobolev Spaces with Zero Boundary Values on Metric Spaces

We generalize the definition of the first order Sobolev spaces with zero boundary values to an arbitrary metric space endowed with a Borel regular measure. We show that many classical results extend to the metric setting. These include completeness, lattice properties and removable sets.     

Function spaces on fractals

We construct function spaces, analogs of Hölder-Zygmund, Besov and Sobolev spaces, on a class of post-critically finite self-similar fractals in general, and the Sierpinski gasket in particular, based on the Laplacian and effective resistance metric of Kigami. This theory is unrelated to the usual embeddings of these fractals in Euclidean space, and so our spaces are distinct from the function spaces of Jonsson and Wallin, although there are some coincidences for small orders of smoothness. We show that the Laplacian acts as one would expect an elliptic pseudodifferential operator of order d+1 on a space of dimension d to act, where d is determined by the growth rate of the measure of metric balls. We establish some Sobolev embedding theorems and some results on complex interpolation on these spaces.     

The Stepanov differentiability theorem in metric measure spaces

We extend Cheeger’s theorem on differentiability of Lipschitz functions in metric measure spaces to the class of functions satisfying Stepanov’s condition. As a consequence, we obtain the analogue of Calderon’s differentiability theorem of Sobolev functions in metric measure spaces satisfying a Poincaré inequality. Communicated by Steven Krantz     

Cheeger Type Sobolev Spaces for Metric Space Targets

In this paper, we consider the natural generalization of Cheeger type Sobolev spaces to maps into a metric space. We solve Dirichlet problem for CAT(0)-space targets, and obtain some results about the relation between Cheeger type Sobolev spaces for maps into a Banach space and those for maps into a subset of that Banach space. We also prove the minimality of upper pointwise Lipschitz constant functions for locally Lipschitz maps into an Alexandrov space of curvature bounded above.     

Differential structure associated to axiomatic Sobolev spaces

The aim of this note is to explain in which sense an axiomatic Sobolev space over a general metric measure space (à la Gol’dshtein–Troyanov) induces – under suitable locality assumptions – a first-order differential structure.