Weighted fractional Poincaré inequalities via isoperimetric inequalities

Abstract

Our main result is a weighted fractional Poincaré-Sobolev inequality improving the celebrated estimate by Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu. This also yields an improvement of the classical Meyers-Ziemer theorem in several ways. The proof is based on a fractional isoperimetric inequality and is new even in the non-weighted setting. We also extend the celebrated Poincaré-Sobolev estimate with $A_p$ weights of Fabes-Kenig-Serapioni by means of a fractional type result in the spirit of Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu. Examples are given to show that the corresponding $L^p$-versions of weighted Poincaré inequalities do not hold for $p>1$.

26 pages, 2 figure. Added Figure 2 and Remark 3.4