On a class of anisotropic Muckenhoupt weights and their applications to $p$-Laplace equations

Abstract

In this paper, a class of anisotropic weights having the form of $|x'|^{\theta_{1}}|x|^{\theta_{2}}|x_{n}|^{\theta_{3}}$ in dimensions $n\geq2$ is considered, where $x=(x',x_{n})$ and $x'=(x_{1},...,x_{n-1})$. We first find the optimal range of $(\theta_{1},\theta_{2},\theta_{3})$ such that this type of weights belongs to the Muckenhoupt class $A_{p}$. Then we further study its doubling property, which shows that it provides an example of a doubling measure but is not in $A_{p}$. As a consequence, we obtain anisotropic weighted Poincar\'{e} and Sobolev inequalities, which are used to study the local behavior for solutions to non-homogeneous weighted $p$-Laplace equations.