Quasiconformal, Lipschitz, and BV mappings in metric spaces

Abstract: Consider a mapping $f\colon X\to Y$ between two metric measure spaces. We study generalized versions of the local Lipschitz number $\mathrm{Lip} f$, as well as of the distortion number $H_f$ that is used to define quasiconformal mappings. Using these, we give sufficient conditions for $f$ being a BV mapping $f\in BV_{\mathrm{loc}}(X;Y)$ or a Newton-Sobolev mapping $f\in N_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,p}(X;Y)$, with $1\le p<\infty$.