Weakly porous sets and Muckenhoupt A_p distance functions

Publication date 13 September 2022

Abstract: We examine the class of weakly porous sets in Euclidean spaces. As our first main result we show that the distance weight

w (x) = o p e r a t o r n a m e d i s t (x, E)^{- a l p h a}

belongs to the Muckenhoupt class

A_{1}

, for some

a l p h a > 0

, if and only if

E s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{n}

is weakly porous. We also give a precise quantitative version of this characterization in terms of the so-called Muckenhoupt exponent of

E

. When

E

is weakly porous, we obtain a similar quantitative characterization of

w i n A_{p}

, for

1 < p < i n f t y

, as well. At the end of the paper, we give an example of a set

E s u b s e t m a t h b b R

which is not weakly porous but for which

w i n A_{p} s e t m i n u s A_{1}

for every

0 < a l p h a < 1

and

1 < p < i n f t y

.

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