Sobolev, BV and perimeter extensions in metric measure spaces

Abstract

We study extensions of sets and functions in general metric measure spaces. We show that an open set has the strong BV extension property if and only if it has the strong extension property for sets of finite perimeter. We also prove several implications between the strong BV extension property and extendability of two different non-equivalent versions of Sobolev $W^{1,1}$-spaces and show via examples that the remaining implications fail.

31 pages, 2 figures