Weighted Bounded Variation Revisited

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the theory of weighted functions of bounded variation (BV), as introduced by Baldi [Ba01]. Depending on the theorem, we impose lower semicontinuity and/or a pointwise A1 condition on the weight. Our motivation is twofold: to establish weighted Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev (GNS) inequalities for BV functions, and to clarify and extend earlier results on weighted BV spaces. Our main contributions include a structure theorem under minimal assumptions (lower semicontinuity), a smooth approximation result, an embedding theorem, a weighted GNS inequality for BV functions, and a corresponding weighted isoperimetric inequality.