Weak Gurov–Reshetnyak class in metric measure spaces

Abstract

We introduce a weak Gurov–Reshetnyak class and discuss its connections to a weak Muckenhoupt A ∞ A_\infty condition and a weak reverse Hölder inequality in the setting of metric measure spaces with a doubling measure. A John–Nirenberg type lemma is shown for the weak Gurov–Reshetnyak class which gives a specific decay estimate for the oscillation of a function. It implies that a function in the weak Gurov–Reshetnyak class satisfies the weak reverse Hölder inequality. This comes with an upper bound for the reverse Hölder exponent depending on the Gurov–Reshetnyak parameter which allows the study of the asymptotic behavior of the exponent.