Fractional Sobolev norms and structure of Carnot-Carathéodory balls for Hörmander vector fields
We study the notion of fractional -differentiability of order along vector fields satisfying the Hörmander condition on . We prove a modified version of the celebrated structure theorem for the Carnot-Carathéodory balls originally due to Nagel, Stein and Wainger. This result enables us to demonstrate that different -norms are equivalent. We also prove a local embedding , where q is a suitable exponent greater than p.