Weak capacity and modulus comparability in Ahlfors regular metric spaces

Abstract: Let $(Z,d,\mu)$ be a compact, connected, Ahlfors $Q$-regular metric space with $Q>1$. Using a hyperbolic filling of $Z$, we define the notions of the $p$-capacity between certain subsets of $Z$ and of the weak covering $p$-capacity of path families $\Gamma$ in $Z$. We show comparability results and quasisymmetric invariance. As an application of our methods we deduce a result due to Tyson on the geometric quasiconformality of quasisymmetric maps between compact, connected Ahlfors $Q$-regular metric spaces.