Closing the gap: Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova and asymptotics of fractional perimeters

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Auteurs principaux: Davoli, Elisa, Fanizza, Alberto, Picerni, Marco
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author Davoli, Elisa
Fanizza, Alberto
Picerni, Marco
author_facet Davoli, Elisa
Fanizza, Alberto
Picerni, Marco
contents We prove a generalization of the Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova formula in the case $p=2$ for functions that may not belong to ${L^2}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and, thus, might not vanish at infinity. By introducing a notion of mass at infinity, we explicitly characterize the limit as $s\to0^+$ of Gagliardo seminorms localized on a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω$. By `localized', we mean here that we account only for interactions involving at least one point in $Ω$. The identified limiting functional provides a unifying framework to link the classical Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova formula and the asymptotics of nonlocal perimeters. On the one hand, it reduces to the classical $L^2$ norm for functions that are globally integrable on $\mathbb{R}^d$. On the other hand, it recovers the pointwise limit of $s$-fractional perimeters when evaluated on characteristic functions of sets. We further show that the same functional encodes the asymptotic behavior of Gagliardo seminorms in the sense of Gamma-convergence with respect to the weak-$L^2$ topology. Finally, we provide an extension to the setting of metric measure spaces.
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spellingShingle Closing the gap: Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova and asymptotics of fractional perimeters
Davoli, Elisa
Fanizza, Alberto
Picerni, Marco
Analysis of PDEs
Metric Geometry
46E35, 26A33, 46B20
We prove a generalization of the Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova formula in the case $p=2$ for functions that may not belong to ${L^2}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and, thus, might not vanish at infinity. By introducing a notion of mass at infinity, we explicitly characterize the limit as $s\to0^+$ of Gagliardo seminorms localized on a bounded Lipschitz domain $Ω$. By `localized', we mean here that we account only for interactions involving at least one point in $Ω$. The identified limiting functional provides a unifying framework to link the classical Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova formula and the asymptotics of nonlocal perimeters. On the one hand, it reduces to the classical $L^2$ norm for functions that are globally integrable on $\mathbb{R}^d$. On the other hand, it recovers the pointwise limit of $s$-fractional perimeters when evaluated on characteristic functions of sets. We further show that the same functional encodes the asymptotic behavior of Gagliardo seminorms in the sense of Gamma-convergence with respect to the weak-$L^2$ topology. Finally, we provide an extension to the setting of metric measure spaces.
title Closing the gap: Maz'ya-Shaposhnikova and asymptotics of fractional perimeters
topic Analysis of PDEs
Metric Geometry
46E35, 26A33, 46B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03955