Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Review of basic functional analysis
- 3 Lebesgue theory of Banach space-valued functions
- 4 Lipschitz functions and embeddings
- 5 Path integrals and modulus
- 6 Upper gradients
- 7 Sobolev spaces
- 8 Poincaré inequalities
- 9 Consequences of Poincaré inequalities
- 10 Other definitions of Sobolev-type spaces
- 11 Gromov–Hausdorff convergence and Poincaré inequalities
- 12 Self-improvement of Poincaré inequalities
- 13 An introduction to Cheeger's differentiation theory
- 14 Examples, applications, and further research directions
- References
- Notation index
- Subject index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Review of basic functional analysis
- 3 Lebesgue theory of Banach space-valued functions
- 4 Lipschitz functions and embeddings
- 5 Path integrals and modulus
- 6 Upper gradients
- 7 Sobolev spaces
- 8 Poincaré inequalities
- 9 Consequences of Poincaré inequalities
- 10 Other definitions of Sobolev-type spaces
- 11 Gromov–Hausdorff convergence and Poincaré inequalities
- 12 Self-improvement of Poincaré inequalities
- 13 An introduction to Cheeger's differentiation theory
- 14 Examples, applications, and further research directions
- References
- Notation index
- Subject index
Summary
The aim of this book is to present a coherent and essentially self-contained treatment of the theory of first-order Sobolev spaces on metric measure spaces, based on the notion of upper gradients.
The project of writing this book was initiated by Juha Heinonen in 2000. His premature passing in 2007 significantly delayed progress in its preparation. We wish to thank Karen E. Smith for securing for us valuable private material of Juha Heinonen pertaining to this text.
Over the years of preparation of the manuscript, we have benefitted from discussions with, and advice from, many colleagues. Amongst them, we wish to give special thanks to the following individuals. We thank Luigi Ambrosio, Piotr Hajłasz, Ilkka Holopainen, Riikka Korte, Jan Malý, Anton Petrunin, and Stephen Semmes for valuable contributions to the mathematical content of this book. Bruce Hanson and Pietro Poggi-Corradini provided detailed comments and corrections of various drafts of the manuscript. We also acknowledge Sita Benedict, Anders Björn, Jana Björn, Estibalitz Durand Cartagena, Nicola Gigli, Changyu Guo, Nijjwal Karak, Aapo Kauranen, Panu Lahti, Marcos Lopez, Marie Snipes, and Thomas Zürcher for reading the manuscript and providing useful feedback. The Mathematica code used to create Figures 14.3 and 14.4 was written by Anton Lukyanenko.
The authors are grateful to Karen E. Smith and Kai Rajala for their encouragement in completing this project.
Our contributions to the field of research summarized in this book have been supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and the Academy of Finland. We wish to acknowledge these agencies for their support over the years. Also, we would like to thank the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics and the University of Jyväskylä for their kind hospitality during some of the intensive writing periods. The final editing of the manuscript was completed during a snowy weekend in January 2014 at the Clifton Gaslight Bed and Breakfast in Cincinnati, Ohio. We wish to thank Scott and Maria Crawford for their hospitality.
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- Sobolev Spaces on Metric Measure SpacesAn Approach Based on Upper Gradients, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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