English

Carnot rectifiability and Alberti representations

Metric Geometry 2024-10-22 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

A metric measure space is said to be Carnot-rectifiable if it can be covered up to a null set by countably many biLipschitz images of compact sets of a fixed Carnot group. In this paper, we give several characterisations of such notion of rectifiability both in terms of Alberti representations of the measure and in terms of differentiability of Lipschitz maps with values in Carnot groups. In order to obtain this characterisation, we develop and study the analogue of the notion of Lipschitz differentiability space by Cheeger, using Carnot groups and Pansu derivatives as models. We call such metric measure spaces Pansu differentiability spaces (PDS).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.01376,
  title  = {Carnot rectifiability and Alberti representations},
  author = {Gioacchino Antonelli and Enrico Le Donne and Andrea Merlo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01376},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

82 pages. Minor corrections, and shortened abstract. Accepted version to be published in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc

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