We study the large-scale behavior of Newton-Sobolev functions on complete, connected, proper, separable metric measure spaces equipped with a Borel measure μ with μ(X) = ∞ and 0 < μ(B(x, r)) < ∞ for all x ∈ X and r ∈ (0, ∞). Our objective is to understand the relationship between the Dirichlet space D^(1,p)(X), defined using upper gradients, and the Newton-Sobolev space N^(1,p)(X)+ℝ, for 1 ≤ p < ∞. We show that when X is of uniformly locally p-controlled geometry, these two spaces do not coincide under a wide variety of geometric and potential theoretic conditions. We also show that when the metric measure space is the standard hyperbolic space ℍⁿ with n ≥ 2, these two spaces coincide precisely when 1 ≤ p ≤ n-1. We also provide additional characterizations of when a function in D^(1,p)(X) is in N^(1,p)(X)+ℝ in the case that the two spaces do not coincide. 
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                            A simple proof of reflexivity and separability of N^{1,p} Sobolev spaces
                        
                    
    
            We present an elementary proof of a well-known theorem of Cheeger which states that if a metric-measure space \(X\) supports a \(p\)-Poincaré inequality, then the \(N^{1,p}(X)\) Sobolev space is reflexive and separable whenever \(p\in (1,\infty)\). We also prove separability of the space when \(p=1\). Our proof is based on a straightforward construction of an equivalent norm on \(N^{1,p}(X)\), \(p\in [1,\infty)\), that is uniformly convex when \(p\in (1,\infty)\). Finally, we explicitly construct a functional that is pointwise comparable to the minimal \(p\)-weak upper gradient, when \(p\in (1,\infty)\). 
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                            - Award ID(s):
- 2055171
- PAR ID:
- 10423174
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Annales Fennici Mathematici
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2737-0690
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 255 to 275
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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