Fractional Poincar\'e and localized Hardy inequalities on metric spaces

Abstract

We prove fractional Sobolev-Poincar\'e inequalities, capacitary versions of fractional Poincar\'e inequalities, and pointwise and localized fractional Hardy inequalities in a metric space equipped with a doubling measure. Our results generalize and extend earlier work where such inequalities have been considered in the Euclidean spaces or in the non-fractional setting in metric spaces. The results concerning pointwise and localized variants of fractional Hardy inequalities are new even in the Euclidean case.