a b s t r a c tLet (X, d, µ) be a Carnot-Carathéodory space, namely, X is a smooth manifold, d is a control, or Carnot-Carathéodory, metric induced by a collection of vector fields of finite type. µ is a nonnegative Borel regular measure on X satisfying that there exists constant C 0 ∈ [1, ∞) such that for all x ∈ X and 0 < r