Gradient estimate for solutions to Poisson equations in metric measure spaces

Let (X, d) be a complete, pathwise connected metric measure space with a locally Ahlfors Q-regular measure μ, whereQ>1. Suppose that (X, d,μ) supports a (local) (1, 2)-Poincaré inequality and a suitable curvature lower bound. For the Poisson equation u = f on (X, d,μ), Moser–Trudinger and Sobolev inequalities are established for the gradient of u. The local Hölder continuity with optimal exponent of solutions is obtained. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved