On the Sharp Lower Bound for Duality of Modulus

Abstract: We establish a sharp reciprocity inequality for modulus in compact metric spaces $X$ with finite Hausdorff measure. In particular, when $X$ is also homeomorphic to a planar rectangle, our result answers a question of K. Rajala and M. Romney. More specifically, we obtain a sharp inequality between the modulus of the family of curves connecting two disjoint continua $E$ and $F$ in $X$ and the modulus of the family of surfaces of finite Hausdorff measure that separate $E$ and $F$. The paper also develops approximation techniques, which may be of independent interest.