A Fefferman-Poincaré type inequality for Carnot-Carathéodory vector fields (Q4330591)

The starting point of the paper is the inequality \[ \int_B|u(x)-u_B|^p|V(x)|dx\leq c\int_B|\nabla u(x)|^p dx \] for each smooth function \(u\), where the potential \(V\) belongs to the class \(L^{r,n-pr}\), \(1\leq r\leq n/p\), \(B\) is a ball and \(u_B\) is the mean value of \(u\) on \(B\). This inequality was proved in [\textit{Charles L. Fefferman}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 9, 129-206 (1983; Zbl 0526.35080)] for \(p=2\) and generalized by several authors, using different techniques described in the paper. The aim of this paper is to prove the above mentioned inequality when the gradient in the right-hand side is replaced by the energy associated to an arbitrary system of vector fields and the function \(V\) belongs to a suitable Stummel-Kato class, defined when the Lebesgue measure is replaced by a Carnot-Carathéodory metric.