Multivariate Bounded Variation Functions of Jordan-Wiener Type

Abstract: We introduce and study spaces of multivariate functions of bounded variation generalizing the classical Jordan and Wiener spaces. Multivariate generalizations of the Jordan space were given by several prominent researchers but each of them preserved only some special properties of the space used further in few selected applications. Unlike this the multivariate generalization of the Jordan space presented in this paper preserves all known and reveals some previously unknown properties of the space. These, in turn, are special cases of the basic properties of the introduced spaces proved in the paper. They, in particular, include results on discontinuity sets and pointwise differentiability of the bounded variation functions and their Luzin type and $C^\infty$ approximation. Moreover, the second part of the paper presents results on Banach structure of function spaces of bounded variation, namely, atomic decomposition and constructive characterization of their predual spaces and then constructive characterization of preduals of the last ones and following from here the so-called two-stars theorems relating second duals of separable subspaces of "vanishing variation" to the (nonseparable) spaces of bounded variation.