Remarks on the Bourgain–Brezis–Mironescu Approach to Sobolev Spaces

B. Bojarski¹

¹ Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences 00-956 Warszawa, Poland

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics, Tome 59 (2011) no. 1, pp. 65-75.

Résumé

For a function $f\in L_{\rm loc}^p(\mathbb R^n)$ the notion of $p$-mean variation of order 1, $\mathsf{V}^{p}_{1} (f,\mathbb R^n)$ is defined. It generalizes the concept of F. Riesz variation of functions on the real line $\mathbb R^1$ to $\mathbb R^n$, $n>1$. The characterisation of the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}(\mathbb R^n)$ in terms of $\mathsf{V}^{p}_{1}(f,\mathbb R^n)$ is directly related to the characterisation of $W^{1,p}(\mathbb R^n)$ by Lipschitz type pointwise inequalities of Bojarski, Hajłasz and Strzelecki and to the Bourgain–Brezis–Mironescu approach.

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DOI : 10.4064/ba59-1-8

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