Characterization of non-linear Besov spaces

Abstract: The canonical generalizations of two classical norms on Besov spaces are shown to be equivalent even in the case of non-linear Besov spaces, that is, function spaces consisting of functions taking values in a metric space and equipped with some Besov-type topology. The proofs are based on atomic decomposition techniques and metric embeddings. Additionally, we provide embedding results showing how non-linear Besov spaces embed into non-linear $p$-variation spaces and vice versa. We emphasize that we neither assume the UMD property of the involved spaces nor their separability.