Warped products, solid hyperbolic fillings, and the identity $D^{1,p} = N^{1,p} + \mathbb{R}$

Abstract

We construct a large class of metric measure spaces $Z$ which satisfy the identity $D^{1,p}(Z) = N^{1,p}(Z) + \mathbb{R}$, i.e.\ any measurable function $u \colon Z \to \mathbb{R}$ with an $L^p$-integrable upper gradient is a constant term away from being $L^p$-integrable. To do so, we construct a family of hyperbolic fillings $\mathbb{H}_{\alpha, \beta}(Y)$, $\alpha, \beta \in (0, \infty)$, of a metric measure space $Y$, via a warped product of $Y$ with an exponentially weighted positive real line. We then show that for certain classes of $Y$, the above identity is satisfied for $Z=\mathbb{H}_{\alpha,\beta}(Y)$ when $1\le p\le \beta/\alpha$. We also show that under mild assumptions on $Y$, the warped product $\mathbb{H}_{\alpha, \beta}(Y)$ is Gromov hyperbolic as a metric space and the Gromov boundary of $\mathbb{H}_{\alpha, \beta}(Y)$ is quasisymmetric to $Y$.