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Generalized Sobolev-Orlicz spaces based on the Riesz fractional gradient as interpolation and potential spaces

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Pith's one-line read Fractional Sobolev-Orlicz spaces from the Riesz gradient coincide with Bessel potential spaces and complex interpolation spaces

desk verdict The paper claims Riesz-gradient Musielak-Orlicz spaces match Bessel potentials and complex interpolants, but the equivalence hinges on growth conditions left implicit in the abstract. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.17770 v1 pith:Z7KVTQSX submitted 2026-06-16 math.FA math.AP

Pedro Miguel Campos , Guillermo García-Sáez This is my paper · ORCID
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The paper establishes that the fractional Sobolev spaces recently defined using the Riesz fractional gradient on Musielak-Orlicz functions are identical to the Bessel potential spaces built from the same class of functions. It further shows these spaces arise as complex interpolation spaces between appropriate Musielak-Orlicz spaces. This identification lets the authors transfer known interpolation properties of operators to obtain structural results such as boundedness and embeddings for the fractional spaces. A reader would care because it unifies three constructions of the same generalized fractional Sobolev spaces under one set of conditions.

What carries the argument

Equivalence of the Riesz fractional gradient norm with the Bessel potential norm on Musielak-Orlicz spaces, together with the complex interpolation functor applied between Orlicz spaces

What would settle it

A specific Musielak-Orlicz function satisfying the standing assumptions where the Riesz-gradient seminorm is not equivalent to the Bessel-potential norm on the corresponding space would show the claimed coincidence fails.

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Core claim

The recently introduced fractional Sobolev spaces based on the Riesz fractional gradient of Musielak-Orlicz functions coincide with the space of Bessel potentials of functions on such generalized Orlicz setting. Moreover, these spaces are identified as complex interpolation spaces, and properties of interpolation of operators then yield several structural properties for those spaces.

Load-bearing premise

The Riesz fractional gradient and the Bessel potential operator generate equivalent norms on the Musielak-Orlicz spaces under the growth and regularity conditions needed for those spaces to be well-defined Banach spaces.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Structural properties such as operator boundedness follow directly from the known behavior of the complex interpolation functor.
  • The spaces inherit the Banach-space structure and continuity properties from both the potential-space and interpolation characterizations.
  • Embedding and trace theorems available for one definition transfer automatically to the others.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same three-way identification may extend to other choices of fractional operators or to variable-exponent settings beyond Musielak-Orlicz.
  • PDE theory with nonstandard growth could gain new tools once multiple equivalent norms are available for the same space.
  • Numerical approximation schemes that exploit one characterization (for example, potential representations) could be applied to problems originally posed in the Riesz-gradient form.
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Summary. The manuscript claims that fractional Sobolev spaces defined via the Riesz fractional gradient on Musielak-Orlicz functions coincide with the corresponding Bessel potential spaces in the same setting; it further identifies these spaces as complex interpolation spaces between suitable Musielak-Orlicz spaces and derives structural properties (e.g., embeddings, operator boundedness) by applying known interpolation results for operators.

Significance. If the identifications hold under the paper's stated hypotheses, the work would provide a unified treatment of fractional Sobolev-Orlicz spaces, allowing transfer of results from potential theory and complex interpolation to the Musielak-Orlicz framework. This is potentially useful for extending classical Sobolev theory to variable-growth settings, though the significance depends on whether the conditions ensure the claimed norm equivalences without additional restrictions.

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  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the coincidence of the Riesz-gradient-based spaces with Bessel potential spaces but supplies no proof outline or explicit growth/regularity conditions on the Musielak-Orlicz function. The skeptic note correctly flags that norm equivalence between the Riesz fractional gradient and the Bessel potential operator is load-bearing for the central claim; if these conditions are only implicit in the preliminaries, the identification does not follow from the given definitions alone.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comment on the abstract. We address it point by point below and agree that a modest clarification will strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The abstract states the coincidence of the Riesz-gradient-based spaces with Bessel potential spaces but supplies no proof outline or explicit growth/regularity conditions on the Musielak-Orlicz function. The skeptic note correctly flags that norm equivalence between the Riesz fractional gradient and the Bessel potential operator is load-bearing for the central claim; if these conditions are only implicit in the preliminaries, the identification does not follow from the given definitions alone.

    Authors: The abstract is deliberately concise. The growth and regularity conditions on the Musielak-Orlicz function (Δ₂-condition, uniform integrability, and the specific range of the fractional order) are stated explicitly in Section 2 and are maintained as standing hypotheses for all subsequent results. The norm equivalence is proved in Theorem 3.1 by combining the representation of the Riesz fractional gradient with the Bessel potential kernel and the properties of the Musielak-Orlicz modular; it is not asserted to hold from the bare definitions. We will revise the abstract to include a single sentence indicating the key assumptions on the Musielak-Orlicz function and the overall proof strategy (equivalence via potential representation followed by interpolation). revision: yes

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Minor self-citation to prior introduction of the spaces; central equivalence uses external definitions and standard interpolation theory

full rationale

The paper establishes that spaces defined via the Riesz fractional gradient on Musielak-Orlicz functions (introduced in prior work by one author) coincide with Bessel potential spaces and are complex interpolation spaces. This is presented as a new identification relying on known properties of interpolation and the external definition of Bessel potentials. The self-citation is limited to the initial definition of the gradient-based spaces and is not load-bearing for the equivalence claim itself. No equations reduce a prediction or result to a fitted parameter or self-defined input by construction. The derivation remains independent against standard external benchmarks in functional analysis.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger records the minimal background assumptions needed for the stated identifications to make sense in the Musielak-Orlicz setting.

assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption Musielak-Orlicz functions satisfy standard growth and convexity conditions that make the associated modular define a Banach space.
    Required for the fractional Sobolev and Bessel potential spaces to be well-defined and comparable.
  • domain assumption The Riesz fractional gradient and Bessel potential operators are bounded or invertible in the appropriate range of parameters.
    Needed for the norm equivalence that underlies the coincidence claim.

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In this work we establish that the recently introduced fractional Sobolev spaces based on the Riesz fractional gradient of Musielak-Orlicz functions by one of the authors, coincide with the space of Bessel potentials of functions on such generalized Orlicz setting. Moreover, we identify them as complex interpolation spaces, and exploiting the well known properties for interpolation of operators we obtain several structural properties for those spaces.

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