Improved Sobolev Inequalities and Muckenhoupt weights on stratified Lie groups

Diego Chamorro

Published 2010-07-23Version 1

We study in this article the Improved Sobolev inequalities with Muckenhoupt weights within the framework of stratified Lie groups. This family of inequalities estimate the Lq norm of a function by the geometric mean of two norms corresponding to Sobolev spaces W(s;p) and Besov spaces B(-b, infty, infty). When the value p which characterizes Sobolev space is strictly larger than 1, the required result is well known in R^n and is classically obtained by a Littlewood-Paley dyadic blocks manipulation. For these inequalities we will develop here another totally different technique. When p = 1, these two techniques are not available anymore and following M. Ledoux in R^n, we will treat here the critical case p = 1 for general stratified Lie groups in a weighted functional space setting. Finally, we will go a step further with a new generalization of Improved Sobolev inequalities using weak-type Sobolev spaces.