Orientador: Prof. Dr. Márcio Fabiano da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mestrado Profissional em Matemática em Rede Nacional, 2016.

We investigate stability for certain geometric and functional inequalities and address the regularity of the free boundary for a problem arising in optimal transport theory. More specifically, stability estimates are obtained for the relative isoperimetric inequality inside convex cones and the Gaussian log-Sobolev inequality for a two parameter family of functions. Thereafter, away from a ``small" singular set, local C^{1,\alpha} regularity of the free boundary is achieved in the optimal partial transport problem. Furthermore, a technique is developed and implemented for estimating the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set. We conclude with a corresponding regularity theory on Riemannian manifolds. / text

The present thesis is devoted to the study of various properties of Banach func- tion spaces, with a particular emphasis on applications in the theory of Sobolev spaces and in harmonic analysis. The thesis consists of four papers. In the first one we investigate higher-order embeddings of Sobolev-type spaces built upon rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces. In particular, we show that optimal higher-order Sobolev embeddings follow from isoperimetric inequal- ities. In the second paper we focus on the question when the above-mentioned Sobolev-type space is a Banach algebra with respect to a pointwise multiplica- tion of functions. An embedding of the Sobolev space into the space of essentially bounded functions is proved to be the answer to this question in several standard as well as nonstandard situations. The third paper is devoted to the problem of validity of the Lebesgue differentiation theorem in the context of rearrangement- invariant Banach function spaces. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of this theorem given in terms of concavity of certain functional depending on the norm in question and we find also alternative characterizations expressed in terms of properties of a maximal operator related to the norm. The object of the final paper is the boundedness of the...

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