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Besicovitch Covering Property on graded groups and applications to measure differentiation (2019)
Le Donne, E., & Rigot, S. (2019). Besicovitch Covering Property on graded groups and applications to measure differentiation. Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, 2019(750), 241-297. https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2016-0051
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All authors or editors: Le Donne, Enrico; Rigot, Séverine
Journal or series: Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik
ISSN: 0075-4102
eISSN: 1435-5345
Publication year: 2019
Volume: 2019
Issue number: 750
Pages range: 241-297
Publisher: de Gruyter
Publication country: Germany
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2016-0051
Publication open access: Not open
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Web address of parallel published publication (pre-print): https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04936
Abstract
We give a complete answer to which homogeneous groups admit homogeneous distances for which the Besicovitch Covering Property (BCP) holds. In particular, we prove that a stratified group admits homogeneous distances for which BCP holds if and only if the group has step 1 or 2. These results are obtained as consequences of a more general study of homogeneous quasi-distances on graded groups. Namely, we prove that a positively graded group admits continuous homogeneous quasi-distances satisfying BCP if and only if any two different layers of the associated positive grading of its Lie algebra commute. The validity of BCP has several consequences. Its connections with the theory of differentiation of measures is one of the main motivations of the present paper. As a consequence of our results, we get for instance that a stratified group can be equipped with some homogeneous distance so that the differentiation theorem holds for each locally finite Borel measure if and only if the group has step 1 or 2. The techniques developed in this paper allow also us to prove that sub-Riemannian distances on stratified groups of step 2 or higher never satisfy BCP. Using blow-up techniques this is shown to imply that on a sub-Riemannian manifold the differentiation theorem does not hold for some locally finite Borel measure.
Keywords: measure theory; harmonic analysis (mathematics)
Free keywords: covering theorems; Besicovitch Covering Property; measure differentiation
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- Geometry of subRiemannian groups: regularity of finite-perimeter sets, geodesics, spheres, and isometries with applications and generalizations to biLipschitz homogenous spaces
- Le Donne, Enrico
- Research Council of Finland
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Reporting Year: 2019
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