On Cheeger and Sobolev differentials in metric measure spaces

  • Martin Kell

    Universität Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

Recently, Gigli developed a Sobolev calculus on non-smooth spaces using module theory. In this paper it is shown that his theory fits nicely into the theory of differentiability spaces initiated by Cheeger, Keith and others. A relaxation procedure for -valued subadditive functionals is presented and a relationship between the module generated by a functional and the one generated by its relaxation is given. In the framework of differentiability spaces, which includes so called PI- and RCD()-spaces, the Lipschitz module is pointwise finite dimensional. A general renorming theorem together with the characterization above shows that the Sobolev spaces of differentiability spaces are reflexive.

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Martin Kell, On Cheeger and Sobolev differentials in metric measure spaces. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 35 (2019), no. 7, pp. 2119–2150

DOI 10.4171/RMI/1114