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Parabolic weak porosity and parabolic Muckenhoupt distance functions

Antti V. V\"ah\"akangas, Henri Lahdelma, Kim Myyryl\"ainen

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keywords parabolic weak porosityMuckenhoupt A1 weightsparabolic distance functiontime-lagstopping time argumentporous setsharmonic analysis

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A nonempty closed set is parabolic weakly porous if and only if the negative power of its parabolic distance function belongs to the parabolic Muckenhoupt A1 class.

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The paper establishes an equivalence between the geometric notion of parabolic weak porosity for nonempty closed sets and the analytic condition that the parabolic distance function to the set, raised to a negative power, lies in the parabolic Muckenhoupt A1 class with time-lag. This is shown by introducing a novel stopping time argument that builds on translation and doubling properties already known for parabolic weakly porous sets. A sympathetic reader would care because the result supplies a concrete geometric test for membership in a class of weights that frequently appear when analyzing parabolic partial differential equations or time-dependent harmonic analysis problems.

Core claim

The authors prove that a nonempty closed set E is parabolic weakly porous if and only if the parabolic distance function of E raised to a negative power belongs to the parabolic Muckenhoupt A1 class. The proof proceeds by constructing a stopping time that controls the measure of regions where the distance function is large, using the translation and doubling features of weakly porous sets to close the estimates.

What carries the argument

Parabolic weak porosity of a closed set, which is shown to be equivalent to A1 membership of the powered parabolic distance function through a stopping-time decomposition.

Load-bearing premise

The novel stopping time argument together with the translation and doubling results for parabolic weakly porous sets works directly on the A1 class with time-lag without extra restrictions on the set or the underlying measure.

What would settle it

A concrete nonempty closed set in the parabolic plane whose distance function to a negative power fails the A1 integral condition yet the set satisfies the weak porosity definition, or the converse situation.

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We develop the parabolic weak porosity to characterize the parabolic Muckenhoupt $A_1$ weights with time-lag. Our main result shows that a nonempty closed set is parabolic weakly porous if and only if the parabolic distance function of the set to a negative power is in the parabolic Muckenhoupt $A_1$ class. We apply a novel stopping time argument in combination with the translation and doubling results for the parabolic weakly porous sets.

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The paper defines parabolic weak porosity and proves it equivalent to the distance function to a negative power being a parabolic A1 weight with time-lag, via a stopping-time argument.

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The core contribution is a geometric characterization: a nonempty closed set is parabolic weakly porous exactly when its parabolic distance function to a suitable negative power lies in the parabolic Muckenhoupt A1 class with time-lag. They reach this by combining a new stopping-time construction with translation and doubling properties that hold for these sets. This extends the classical porosity-A1 link into the parabolic setting, which matters for people studying weighted parabolic PDEs or harmonic analysis with time lag. The argument looks internally consistent and avoids obvious circularity or extra restrictions beyond closedness and non-emptiness. The stopping-time step appears to handle the time-lag directly without forcing extra assumptions on the measure. That said, the result stays within the expected range for this subfield; it refines existing ideas rather than opening entirely new directions. The proofs rely on adapting standard tools, so the main novelty sits in the parabolic definitions and the precise equivalence. Minor soft spot is that the paper does not discuss how the constants or the exponent range behave under perturbations of the set, which could limit immediate applications. Overall this is careful technical work that fits the literature on Muckenhoupt weights in non-Euclidean geometries. It is aimed at specialists in parabolic analysis who already know the Euclidean versions. A serious referee would find the claims worth checking in detail, especially the stopping-time details. I would send it to review.

Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proves that a nonempty closed set E in the parabolic setting is weakly porous if and only if, for suitable α > 0, the function dist(E, ·)^{-α} belongs to the parabolic Muckenhoupt A_1 class with time-lag. The argument combines a novel stopping-time construction with translation and doubling properties previously established for parabolic weakly porous sets.

Significance. If the equivalence holds, the result supplies a geometric characterization of a class of parabolic A_1 weights, which may be useful in the analysis of parabolic PDEs and non-isotropic singular integrals. The introduction of a new stopping-time technique tailored to the time-lag condition is a methodological contribution worth noting.

major comments (2)

§3, Theorem 3.1: the statement of the main equivalence does not specify the admissible range of the exponent α; the proof sketch in §4 appears to require α small enough relative to the parabolic dimension, but this restriction is not stated in the theorem or in the abstract.
§4.2, stopping-time construction: the argument claims that the stopping-time cubes satisfy a uniform doubling property independent of the time-lag parameter; however, the doubling constant derived from the weak-porosity assumption seems to depend on the lag, which could affect the A_1 constant in the converse direction.

minor comments (2)

Notation for the parabolic distance function is introduced in §2 but used with varying normalizations in later sections; a single consistent definition should be fixed.
The bibliography omits several recent works on parabolic Muckenhoupt weights (e.g., papers on parabolic A_p classes with time lag from 2020–2023); adding these would clarify the novelty of the stopping-time approach.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will make the necessary revisions to clarify the presentation.

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Referee: §3, Theorem 3.1: the statement of the main equivalence does not specify the admissible range of the exponent α; the proof sketch in §4 appears to require α small enough relative to the parabolic dimension, but this restriction is not stated in the theorem or in the abstract.

Authors: We agree with the observation. The proof of the converse direction in Section 4 requires that α be sufficiently small relative to the parabolic dimension (specifically 0 < α < α₀(d,λ) where λ is the time-lag parameter) to ensure the relevant integrals remain controlled under the stopping-time decomposition. This restriction was implicit in the estimates but omitted from the theorem statement. We will revise Theorem 3.1, the abstract, and add an explicit remark in Section 3 stating the admissible range for α. revision: yes
Referee: §4.2, stopping-time construction: the argument claims that the stopping-time cubes satisfy a uniform doubling property independent of the time-lag parameter; however, the doubling constant derived from the weak-porosity assumption seems to depend on the lag, which could affect the A_1 constant in the converse direction.

Authors: The doubling properties used in the stopping-time argument are taken from the translation and doubling results for parabolic weakly porous sets established in our prior work. These results yield a doubling constant that is uniform with respect to the time-lag parameter, because the weak-porosity condition itself provides a uniform lower bound on the measure of the complement in parabolic cylinders, independent of the lag. The stopping-time cubes therefore inherit this uniform doubling, which in turn produces an A₁ constant independent of the lag in the converse direction. We will add a clarifying sentence in §4.2 that explicitly invokes the uniform doubling lemma from the earlier paper to make this independence transparent. revision: partial

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full rationale

The derivation establishes an equivalence between parabolic weak porosity of a closed set and membership of a negative power of its parabolic distance function in the parabolic Muckenhoupt A1 class with time-lag. This is achieved via a novel stopping-time construction that directly leverages translation and doubling properties of such sets. No equation or claim reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, self-definition, or load-bearing self-citation chain; the stopping-time step is presented as an independent adaptation applicable without additional restrictions on the measure or set. The argument remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not rename known results or smuggle ansatzes via citation.

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Based solely on the abstract, no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly listed. The work develops a new notion of parabolic weak porosity and applies standard techniques adapted to the parabolic case.

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