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STRONGLY NONLINEAR POTENTIAL THEORY ON METRIC SPACES ¨ NOUREDDINE AISSAOUI Received 23 January 2002 We define Orlicz-Sobolev spaces on an arbitrary metric space with a Borel reg- ular outer measure, and we develop a capacity theory based on these spaces. We study basic properties of capacity and several convergence results. We prove that each Orlicz-Sobolev function has a quasi-continuous representative. We give es- timates for the capacity of balls when the measure is doubling. Under additional regularity assumption on the measure, we establish some relations be