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ACL functionsCalderón-Zygmund operatorscapacitycondenserextremal lengthHardy-Littlewood maximal functionsLevi functionsPoincaré inequalitypolarizationRiesz potentialssymmetrizationweighted Sobolev inequality
Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to potential theory (31-02) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15) Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Maximal functions, Littlewood-Paley theory (42B25) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)
The extremal length of a curve family in the plane was introduced by \textit{L. V. Ahlfors} and \textit{A. Beurling} in [Acta Math. 83, 101--129 (1950; Zbl 0041.20301)] and extended by \textit{B. Fuglede} in [Acta Math. 98, 171--219 (1957; Zbl 0079.27703)] to the case of Euclidean \(n\)-space. The modulus of a curve family is the reciprocal of the extremal length. A condenser is a pair \((A,C)\) where \(A\) is a domain in \(\mathbb R^n\) and \(C\) is a compact subset of \(A\,.\) The conformal capacity of the condenser \((A,C)\) equals the modulus of the family of all curves joining \(C\) and \(\partial A \,.\) This important connection of the extremal length with the potential theoretic notion of the capacity is one of the main themes of the book and this well-known result is proved here in the very general setup for the weighted extremal length. Another main theme is the notion of the precise function. The class \(ACL\) consists of functions which are absolutely continuous on almost every line parallel to a coodinate axis. The class of precise functions consists of functions absolute continuous along all curves, except possibly a family of modulus zero. Further, the theory of Beppo Levi functions in the sense of \textit{J. Deny} and \textit{J. L. Lions} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 5, 305--370 (1954; Zbl 0065.09903)], i.e. \(ACL\) functions with gradient in \(L^p,\) has provided motivation for the themes studied in this book. The topics discussed cover a wide variety of methods and results from potential theoretic analysis. Some examples are Hardy-Littlewood maximal functions, Calderón-Zygmund operators, Riesz potentials, weighted Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities, symmetrization and polarization. Throughout the whole book the weighted theory (weighted moduli, weighted capacity, etc.) is discussed. The bibliography is rather short and for instance applications are not mentioned. Some of the contexts where the extremal length has been utilized as an important tool are quasiconformal and quasiregular mappings [\textit{F. W. Gehring}, Kühnau, R. (ed.), Handbook of complex analysis: geometric function theory. Volume 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland, 1--29 (2005; Zbl 1078.30014), \textit{R. Kühnau}, Geometrie der konformen Abbildung auf der hyperbolischen und der elliptischen Ebene. Mathematische Forschungsberichte. 28. (Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften) (1974; Zbl 0278.30022), \textit{O. Lehto} and \textit{K. I. Virtanen}, Quasiconformal mappings in the plane. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Band 126 ( Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag) (1973; Zbl 0267.30016), \textit{S. Rickman}, Quasiregular mappings. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge. 26 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) (1993; Zbl 0816.30017), \textit{J. Väisälä}, Lectures on \(n\)-dimensional quasiconformal mappings, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1971; Zbl 0221.30031), \textit{M. Vuorinen}, Conformal geometry and quasiregular mappings. Lect. Notes Math. 1319 (Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag) (1988; Zbl 0646.30025)], classical function theory [\textit{J. A. Jenkins}, Handbook of complex analysis: geometric function theory. Volume 1, Amsterdam: North Holland (2002; Zbl 1064.30014), \textit{G.V. Kuz'mina}, St. Petersbg. Math. J. 9, No. 3, 455--507 (1998); translation from Algebra Anal. 9, No. 3, 41--103 (1997; Zbl 0917.30001)], Beppo Levi spaces [\textit{Y. Mizuta}, Potential theory in Euclidean spaces. GAKUTO International Series. Mathematical Sciences and Applications. 6. (Tokyo: Gakkotosho) (1995; Zbl 0849.31001) and \textit{G. D. Suvorov}, The generalized ``length and area principle in mapping theory. Kiev: Naukova Dumka (1985; Zbl 0669.30012)], and analysis on metric spaces [\textit{J. Heinonen}, Lectures on analysis on metric spaces. Universitext (New York, NY: Springer) (2001; Zbl 0985.46008)].
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