Abstract
During the last decade, potential theory and p-harmonic functions have been developed in the setting of doubling metric measure spaces supporting a p-Poincaré inequality. This theory unifies, and has applications in several areas of analysis, such as weighted Sobolev spaces, calculus on Riemannian manifolds and Carnot groups, subelliptic differential operators and potential theory on graphs. In this thesis we investigate the double obstacle problem for p-harmonic functions on metric spaces. We show the existence and uniqueness of solutions and their continuity when the obstacles are continuous. Moreover the solution is p-harmonic in the open set where it does not touch the continuous obstacles. The boundary regularity of the solutions is also studied. Furthermore we study two kinds of convergence problems for the solutions. First we let the obstacles vary and fix the boundary values and show the convergence of the solutions. Second we consider an increasing sequence of open sets, with union Ω, and fix the obstacles and the boundary values. We show that the solutions of the obstacle problems in these sets converge to the solution of the corresponding problem in Ω.