Improved Sobolev inequalities and Muckenhoupt weights on stratified Lie groups (Q629229)

In the Euclidean case one can distinguish three types of improved Sobolev inequalities, namely, \(\|f\|_{\dot W^{s,q}}\leq C\|f\|^\theta _{\dot W^{s_1,p}} \|f\|^{1-\theta }_{\dot B_\infty ^{-\beta ,\infty }}\), \(\|f\|_{L^q}\leq \|\nabla f\|^\theta _{L^p} \|f\|^{1-\theta }_{\dot B_\infty ^{-\beta ,\infty }}\) and \(\|f\|_{\dot W^{s,q}}\leq C \|f\|_{BV}^{1/q} \|f\|^{1-1/q}_{\dot B_\infty ^{-\beta ,\infty }}\), where we have used \(\dot W^{s,q}\) for homogeneous \((s,p)\)-Sobolev spaces and \(\dot B_\infty ^{-\beta ,\infty }\) for \((-\beta ,\infty ,\infty )\)-Besov spaces. In this paper the author studies these inequalities using as a framework stratified Lie groups which are natural generalizations of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) when modifying dilatations. The proposed approach uses weighted functional spaces with Muckenhoupt weights. For \(p>1\), the first type inequality is well known in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and is classically obtained by a Littlewood-Paley dyadic blocks manipulation. The technique used by author is totally different. The critical case \(p=1\) is treated in the general context of stratified Lie groups also in a weighted functional space setting.