An interpolation result for A_1 weights with applications to fractional Poincaré inequalities

Abstract

We characterize the real interpolation space between weighted $L^1$ and $W^{1,1}$ spaces on arbitrary domains different from ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, when the weights are positive powers of the distance to the boundary multiplied by an $A_1$ weight. As an application of this result we obtain weighted fractional Poincaré inequalities with sharp dependence on the fractional parameter $s$ (for $s$ close to 1) and show that they are equivalent to a weighted Poincaré inequality for the gradient.