Lipschitz continuity of Cheeger-harmonic functions in metric measure spaces

We use the heat equation to establish the Lipschitz continuity of Cheeger-harmonic functions in certain metric spaces. The metric spaces under consideration are those that are endowed with a doubling measure supporting a (1,2)-Poincaré inequality and in addition supporting a corresponding Sobolev-Poincaré-type inequality for the modification of the measure obtained via the heat kernel. Examples are given to illustrate the necessity of our assumptions on these spaces. We also provide an example to show that in the general setting the best possible regularity for the Cheeger-harmonic functions is Lipschitz continuity.     

Pointwise Lipschitz functions on metric spaces

For a metric space X, we study the space D^∞(X) of bounded functions on X whose pointwise Lipschitz constant is uniformly bounded. D^∞(X) is compared with the space LIP^∞(X) of bounded Lipschitz functions on X, in terms of different properties regarding the geometry of X. We also obtain a Banach-Stone theorem in this context. In the case of a metric measure space, we also compare D^∞(X) with the Newtonian-Sobolev space N1,∞(X). In particular, if X supports a doubling measure and satisfies a local Poincaré inequality, we obtain that D^∞(X)=N1,∞(X).     

Lipschitz continuity of refinable functions on the Heisenberg group

In this paper, the Lipschitz continuity of refinable functions related to the general acceptable dilations on the Heisenberg group will be investigated in terms of the uniform joint spectral radius. We also give an investigation of the refinable functions in the generalized Lipschitz spaces related to a kind of special acceptable dilations.     

Isometries on spaces of vector valued Lipschitz functions

This paper gives a characterization of a class of surjective isometries on spaces of Lipschitz functions with values in a finite dimensional complex Hilbert space.     

Isometries between Banach spaces of Lipschitz functions

The Banach spaces Lip ^a (S, Δ), lip ^a (S, Δ), Lip ^a (S, Δ;s ₀) and lip ^a (S, Δ;s ₀) of Lipschitz functions are defined. We shall identify the extreme points of the unit balls in their corresponding dual spaces and make use of them to present a complete characterization of the isometries between these function spaces. This paper is a part of the author’s M.Sc. thesis which was prepared under the guidance of Dr. Y. Benyamini.     

Gaussian concentration in the Kantorovich metric of distributions of random variables and the quantile functions

We give a sketch of the proof of the following theorem. Assume that the unit ball of the kernel space H_γ of a centered Gaussian measure λ in the space L² is a subspace of the unit ball of this space. Then there exists a (“typical”) univariate distribution such that the expectation with respect to γ of the Kantorovich distance between the distribution of an element of L² chosen at random and this typical distribution is less than 0.8. Bibliography: 5 titles. __________ Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 328, 2005, pp. 230–235.     

Lipschitz continuity of state functions in some optimal shaping

We prove local Lipschitz continuity of the solution to the state equation in two kinds of shape optimization problems with constraint on the volume: the minimal shaping for the Dirichlet energy, with no sign condition on the state function, and the minimal shaping for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian. This is a main first step for proving regularity of the optimal shapes themselves.Received: 11 November 2003, Accepted: 10 May 2004, Published online: 8 February 2005Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 49Q10, 35R35, 49K20, 35J20     

Lipschitz continuity theorems for free discontinuity problem in several variables

In this paper, following the method in [S. Solimini, Simplified excision techniques for free discontinuity problems in several variables, J. Funct. Anal. 151 (1997) 1-34], we prove a regularity of the function in minimizer for free discontinuity problem. Namely, we prove that the function is globally Lipschitz continuous out of a small neighborhood of the singular set.     

On the Lipschitz continuity of the dilation of Bloch functions

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Weakly compact weighted composition operators on spaces of Lipschitz functions

We prove that if X is a compact metric space and \({\text {lip}}(X,d)\) has the uniform separation property, then weakly compact weighted composition operators on spaces of Lipschitz functions \({\text {Lip}}(X,d)\) and \({\text {lip}}(X,d)\) are compact.     

Lipschitz continuity, Aleksandrov theorem and characterizations for H-convex functions

In the geometries of stratified groups, we show that H-convex functions locally bounded from above are locally Lipschitz continuous and that the class of v-convex functions exactly corresponds to the class of upper semicontinuous H-convex functions. As a consequence, v-convex functions are locally Lipschitz continuous in every stratified group. In the class of step 2 groups we characterize locally Lipschitz H-convex functions as measures whose distributional horizontal Hessian is positive semidefinite. In Euclidean space the same results were obtained by Dudley and Reshetnyak. We prove that a continuous H-convex function is a.e. twice differentiable whenever its second order horizontal derivatives are Radon measures.     

On the action of Lipschitz functions on vector-valued random sums

Let X be a Banach space and let (ξ_j)_j ≧ 1 be an i.i.d. sequence of symmetric random variables with finite moments of all orders. We prove that the following assertions are equivalent:

Defining continuity of real functions of real variables

Continuity of a real function of a real variable has been defined in various ways over almost 200 years. Contrary to popular belief, the definitions are not all equivalent, because their consequences for four somewhat pathological functions reveal five essentially different cases. The four defensible ones imply just two cases for continuity on an interval if that is defined by using pointwise continuity at each point. Some authors had trouble: two different textbooks each gave two arguably inconsistent definitions, three more changed their definitions in their second editions, two more claimed continuity at a point for functions not defined there, and one gave a definition implying it for a function with no limit there.