Fractional Sobolev Inequalities: Symmetrization, Isoperimetry and Interpolation

Abstract

We obtain new oscillation inequalities in metric spaces in terms of the Peetre $K-$functional and the isoperimetric profile. Applications provided include a detailed study of Fractional Sobolev inequalities and the Morrey-Sobolev embedding theorems in different contexts. In particular we include a detailed study of Gaussian measures as well as probablity measures between Gaussian and exponential. We show a kind of reverse Polya-Szego principle that allows us to obtain continuity as a self improvement from boundedness, using symetrization inequalities. Our methods also allow for precise estimates of growth envelopes of generalized Sobolev and Besov spaces on metric spaces. We also consider embeddings into $BMO$ and their connection to Sobolev embeddings.

114 pages, made some editorial changes and made corrections to chapters 3, 4 and 7