A new characterization of Sobolev spaces on $\mathbb{R}^n$

Roc Alabern, Joan Mateu, Joan Verdera

Published 2010-11-02, updated 2010-11-27Version 2

In this paper we present a new characterization of Sobolev spaces on Euclidian spaces ($\mathbb{R}^n$). Our characterizing condition is obtained via a quadratic multiscale expression which exploits the particular symmetry properties of Euclidean space. An interesting feature of our condition is that depends only on the metric of $\mathbb{R}^n$ and the Lebesgue measure, so that one can define Sobolev spaces of any order of smoothness on any metric measure space.