A new look at the John-Nirenberg and John-Stromberg theorems for BMO. Lecture Notes

Abstract: We develop some techniques for studying various versions of the function space BMO. Special cases of one of our results give alternative proofs of the celebrated John- Nirenberg inequality and of related inequalities due to John and to Wik. Our approach enables us to pose a simply formulated "geometric" question, for which an affirmative answer would lead to a version of the John-Nirenberg inequality with dimension free constants. A more detailed summary of the main ideas and results of this paper can be found at http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~mcwikel/bmo/CwikSaghShvaSummary.pdf