This paper is meant as a (short and partial) introduction to the study of the geometry of Carnot groups and, more generally, of Carnot-Carathéodory spaces associated with a family of Lipschitz continuous vector fields. My personal interest in this field goes back to a series of joint papers with E. Lanconelli, where this notion was exploited for the study of pointwise regularity of weak solutions to degenerate elliptic partial differential equations. As stated in the title, here we are mainly concerned...

The aim of this manuscript is to determine the relative size of several functions (copulas, quasi– copulas) that are commonly used in stochastic modeling. It is shown that the class of all quasi–copulas that are (locally) associated to a doubly stochastic signed measure is a set of first category in the class of all quasi– copulas. Moreover, it is proved that copulas are nowhere dense in the class of quasi-copulas. The results are obtained via a checkerboard approximation of quasi–copulas.

A topological space $X$ is called base-base paracompact (John E. Porter) if it has an open base $ℬ$ such that every base ${ℬ}^{\text{'}}\subseteq ℬ$ has a locally finite subcover $𝒞\subseteq {ℬ}^{\text{'}}$. It is not known if every paracompact space is base-base paracompact. We study subspaces of the Sorgenfrey line (e.g. the irrationals, a Bernstein set) as a possible counterexample.

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The necessary and sufficient condition for a function $f:(0,1)\to [0,1]$ to be Borel measurable (given by Theorem stated below) provides a technique to prove (in Corollary 2) the existence of a Borel measurable map $H:{\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}\to {\{0,1\}}^{\mathbb{N}}$ such that $ℒ\left(H\left({\mathbf{\text{X}}}^p\right)\right)=ℒ\left({\mathbf{\text{X}}}^{1/2}\right)$ holds for each $p\in (0,1)$, where ${\mathbf{\text{X}}}^p=(X_1^p,X_2^p,...)$ denotes Bernoulli sequence of random variables with $P[X_i^p=1]=p$.

We construct Bernstein sets in ℝ having some additional algebraic properties. In particular, solving a problem of Kraszewski, Rałowski, Szczepaniak and Żeberski, we construct a Bernstein set which is a < c-covering and improve some other results of Rałowski, Szczepaniak and Żeberski on nonmeasurable sets.

Let $E$ be a self-similar set with similarities ratio $r_j(0\le j\le m-1)$ and Hausdorff dimension $s$, let $\overrightarrow{p}(p_0,p_1)...p_{m-1}$ be a probability vector. The Besicovitch-type subset of $E$ is defined as$$E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)=\left\{x\in E:\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{1}{n}\sum _{k=1}^n{\chi }_j\left(x_k\right)=p_j,0\le j\le m-1\right\},$$where ${\chi }_j$ is the indicator function of the set $\left\{j\right\}$. Let $\alpha ={dim}_H\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={dim}_P\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=\frac{{\sum }_{j=0}^{m-1}{p}_{j}log{p}_j}{{\sum }_{j=0}^{m-1}{p}_{i}log{r}_j}$ and $g$ be a gauge function, then we prove in this paper:(i) If $\overrightarrow{p}=(r_0^s,r_1^s,\cdots ,r_{m-1}^s)$, then$${\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\right),{𝒫}^s\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)={𝒫}^s\left(E\right),$$moreover both of ${\mathscr{H}}^s\left(E\right)$ and ${𝒫}^s\left(E\right)$ are finite positive;(ii) If $\overrightarrow{p}$ is a positive probability vector other than $(r_0^s,r_1^s,\cdots ,r_{m-1}^s)$, then the gauge functions can be partitioned as follows$${\mathscr{H}}^g\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=+\infty \iff \underset{t\to 0}{\overline{\lim }}\frac{logg\left(t\right)}{logt}\le \alpha ;{\mathscr{H}}^g\left(E\left(\overrightarrow{p}\right)\right)=0⟺\underset{t\to 0}{\overline{\lim }}\frac{logg\left(t\right)}{logt}\&gt;\alpha ,$$$$...$$

We construct various Besicovitch sets using Baire category arguments.

Let Γ be a compact d-set in ℝⁿ with 0 < d ≤ n, which includes various kinds of fractals. The author shows that the Besov spaces $B_{pq}^s\left(\Gamma \right)$ defined by two different and equivalent methods, namely, via traces and quarkonial decompositions in the sense of Triebel are the same spaces as those obtained by regarding Γ as a space of homogeneous type when 0 < s < 1, 1 < p < ∞ and 1 ≤ q ≤ ∞.

It is shown that Bessel potentials have a representation in term of measure when the underlying space is Orlicz. A comparison between capacities and Lebesgue measure is given and geometric properties of Bessel capacities in this space are studied. Moreover it is shown that if the capacity of a set is null, then the variation of all signed measures of this set is null when these measures are in the dual of an Orlicz-Sobolev space.

We prove some results in the context of isoperimetric inequalities with quantitative terms. In the $2$-dimensional case, our main contribution is a method for determining the optimal coefficients $c_1,...,c_m$ in the inequality $\delta P\left(E\right)\ge {\sum }_{k=1}^m{c}_k\alpha {\left(E\right)}^k+o\left(\alpha {\left(E\right)}^m\right)$, valid for each Borel set $E$ with positive and finite area, with $\delta P\left(E\right)$ and $\alpha \left(E\right)$ being, respectively, the $\mathrm{𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡}$ and the $\mathrm{𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦}$ of $E$. In $n$ dimensions, besides proving existence and regularity properties of minimizers for a wide class of $\mathrm{𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠}$ including the lower semicontinuous extension of $\frac{\delta P\left(E\right)}{\alpha {\left(E\right)}^2}$, we describe the...