On Helly's principle for metric semigroup valued BV mappings to two real variables

Abstract

We introduce a concept of metric space valued mappings of two variables with finite total variation and define a counterpart of the Hardy space. Then we establish the following Helly type selection principle for mappings of two variables: Let X be a metric space and a commutative additive semigroup whose metric is translation invariant. Then an infinite pointwise precompact family of X-valued mappings on the closed rectangle of the plane, which is of uniformly bounded total variation, contains a pointwise convergent sequence whose limit is a mapping with finite total variation.