The Riesz Capacity in Metric Spaces

Abstract

We study a capacity theory based on a definition of a Riesz potential in metric spaces with a doubling measure. In this general setting, we study the basic properties of the Riesz capacity, including monotonicity, countable subadditivity and several convergence results. We define a modified version of the Hausdorff measure and provide lower bound and upper bound estimates for the capacity in terms of the modified Hausdorff content.