In this note we give an overview of recent results in the theory of electrorheological fluids and the theory of function spaces with variable exponents. Moreover, we present a detailed and self-contained exposition of shifted $N$-functions that are used in the studies of generalized Newtonian fluids and problems with $p$-structure.

Let $X$ be a metric space with a doubling measure, $Y$ be a boundedly compact metric space and $u:X\to Y$ be a Lebesgue precise mapping whose upper gradient $g$ belongs to the Lorentz space $L_{m,1}$, $m\ge 1$. Let $E\subset X$ be a set of measure zero. Then ${\widehat{\mathscr{H}}}_m(E\cap u^{-1}\left(y\right))=0$ for ${\mathscr{H}}_m$-a.e. $y\in Y$, where ${\mathscr{H}}_m$ is the $m$-dimensional Hausdorff measure and ${\widehat{\mathscr{H}}}_m$ is the $m$-codimensional Hausdorff measure. This property is closely related to the coarea formula and implies a version of the Eilenberg inequality. The result relies on estimates of Hausdorff content of...

This paper is devoted to embedding theorems for classes of functions of several variables. One of our main objectives is to give an analysis of some basic embeddings as well as to study relations between them. We also discuss some methods in this theory that were developed in the last decades. These methods are based on non-increasing rearrangements of functions, iterated rearrangements, estimates of sections of functions, related mixed norms, and molecular decompositions.

We describe an approach to establish a theory of metric Sobolev spaces based on Lipschitz functions and their pointwise Lipschitz constants and the Poincaré inequality.