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Quasiopen sets, bounded variation and lower semicontinuity in metric spaces

Metric Geometry 2017-03-16 v1

Abstract

In the setting of a metric space that is equipped with a doubling measure and supports a Poincar\'e inequality, we show that the total variation of functions of bounded variation is lower semicontinuous with respect to L1L^1-convergence in every 11-quasiopen set. To achieve this, we first prove a new characterization of the total variation in 11-quasiopen sets. Then we utilize the lower semicontinuity to show that the variation measures of a sequence of functions of bounded variation converging in the strict sense are uniformly absolutely continuous with respect to the 11-capacity.

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@article{arxiv.1703.04675,
  title  = {Quasiopen sets, bounded variation and lower semicontinuity in metric spaces},
  author = {Panu Lahti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04675},
  year   = {2017}
}