On some notions of tangent space to a measure

Citation
I. Fragala et C. Mantegazza, On some notions of tangent space to a measure, P RS EDIN A, 129, 1999, pp. 331-342
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH SECTION A-MATHEMATICS
ISSN journal
03082105 → ACNP
Volume
129
Year of publication
1999
Part
2
Pages
331 - 342
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-2105(1999)129:<331:OSNOTS>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We consider some definitions of tangent space to a Radon measure mu on R-n that have been given in the literature. In particular, we focus our attenti on on a recent distributional notion of tangent Vector field to a measure a nd we compare it to other definitions coming from 'geometric measure theory ', based on the idea of blow-up. After showing some classes of examples, we prove an estimate from above for the dimension of the tangent spaces and a rectifiability theorem which also includes the case of measures supported on sets of variable dimension.