Bessel potentials in Ahlfors regular metric spaces

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Abstract: In this paper we define Bessel potentials in Ahlfors regular spaces using a Coifman type approximation of the identity, and show they improve regularity for Lipschitz, Besov and Sobolev-type functions. We prove density and embedding results for the Sobolev potential spaces defined by them. Finally, via fractional derivatives, we find that for small orders, these Bessel potentials are inversible, and show a way to characterize potential spaces, using singular integrals techniques, such as the T1 theorem. Moreover, this characterization allows us to prove these spaces in fact coincide with the classical potential Sobolev spaces in the Euclidean case.


Let \(N>0\). An Ahlfors regular \(N\)-set \((X, d, m)\) is a set \(X\) furnished with a metric \(d\) and a measure \(m\) such that \[ m \big( B(x,2r) \big) \sim r^N \] for each \(x\in X\) and \(0 <r<\)diam\(X\). Here \(B(x,2r)\) is a ball of radius \(2r\) centered at \(x\in X\). This covers Euclidean \(N\)-spaces, but also numerous distinguished fractals. There are several proposals in the literature how to define (fractional) Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces on Ahlfors regular \(N\)-sets. The paper contributes to this topic introducing related spaces in terms of Bessel potentials (guided by the well-known procedure in Euclidean \(N\)-space). This includes the notation of fractional derivatives and related embedding assertions.











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