A characterization of BMO self-maps of a metric measure space (Q495988)

The authors generalize two results on maps and functions with bounded mean oscillation (BMO maps and BMO functions) to the context of complete metric spaces \(X\) equipped with outer measures satisfying the doubling condition (that is, for which the outer measure of an open ball is bounded by a constant multiple of the outer measure of the open ball centered at the same point and of halved radius). The first of them asserts that under certain conditions on a finite system of measurable sets \(E_1,\dots,E_N\) there exists a partition of unity \(f_1,\dots,f_N\) formed by BMO nonnegative functions such that \(f_j\) vanishes almost everywhere on \(E_j\) (\(j=1,\dots,N\)). The second gives sufficient and necessary conditions (which relate the outer measures of pairs of measurable sets and their inverse images) for a measurable map \(F\) of \(X\) into \(X\) to be a BMO map (that is, such that \(u \circ F\) is BMO for any real-valued BMO function \(u\) on \(X\)) and estimates the norm of the corresponding composition operator. The proofs of the aforementioned results are constituted by a number of auxiliary results.