Local vanishing mean oscillation

Abstract

We consider various notions of vanishing mean oscillation on a (possibly unbounded) domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, and prove an analogue of Sarason's theorem, giving sufficient conditions for the density of bounded Lipschitz functions in the nonhomogeneous space $\rm{vmo}(\Omega)$. We also study $\rm{cmo}(\Omega)$, the closure in $\rm{bmo}(\Omega)$ of the continuous functions with compact support in $\Omega$. Using these approximation results, we prove that there is a bounded extension from $\rm{vmo}(\Omega)$ and $\rm{cmo}(\Omega)$ to the corresponding spaces on $\mathbb{R}^n$, if and only if $\Omega$ is a locally uniform domain.