Function spaces in Lipschitz domains and on Lipschitz manifolds. Characteristic functions as pointwise multipliers. (Q1870105)

This interesting paper combines features of a survey and of a research paper. It deals with the spaces \(B^s_{pq}(\Omega)\) and \(F^s_{pq}(\Omega)\) where \(\Omega\) is a domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The case of a bounded \(C^\infty\)-domain was systematically studied in the last few decades, being well presented in various books. The case when \(\Omega\) is just Lipschitzian was much less studied. The paper is devoted to this difficult case and fills various gaps in the topic. The author's programme in the paper is to separate the following situations: I. There is no difference neither in the formulation nor in the proof of the corresponding properties. (This applies to all embeddings between spaces, including compactness.) II. The respective properties are the same, but new arguments are needed to justify them (for example, extension problems, interpolation, duality). III. The statements themselves should be modified (for example, traces, lifting properties). The author first studies basic properties of the spaces covering statements of the type I and II (Section 2), then passes to more special properties -- extension by zero, duality, scales (Section 3). Special attention is paid to the clarification under which restrictions on the parameters \(p,q\) and \(s\) the method of local charts may be applied in the case of Lipschitz domains (Section 4). Pointwise multipliers are studied on this base; the possibility of characteristic functions of irregular domains to be pointwise multipliers in the spaces \(F^s_{pq}\) is investigated separately (Section 5). The paper ends with some applications to \(n\)-dimensional Lipschitz manifolds (Section 6).