Besov spaces via hyperbolic fillings

Abstract: We establish a new characterization of the homogeneous Besov spaces $\dot{\mathcal B}^{s}_{p,q}(Z)$ with smoothness $s \in (0,1)$ in the setting of doubling metric measure spaces $(Z,d,\mu)$. The characterization is given in terms of a hyperbolic filling of the metric space $(Z,d)$, a construction which has previously appeared in the context of other function spaces in [3,1,2]. We use the characterization to obtain results concerning the density of Lipschitz functions in the spaces $\dot{\mathcal B}^{s}_{p,q}(Z)$ and a general complex interpolation formula in the smoothness range $0 < s < 1$.