A distributional approach to fractional Sobolev spaces and fractional variation: existence of blow-up

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Abstract: We introduce the new space BValpha(mathbbRn) of functions with bounded fractional variation in mathbbRn of order alphain(0,1) via a new distributional approach exploiting suitable notions of fractional gradient and fractional divergence already existing in the literature. In analogy with the classical BV theory, we give a new notion of set E of (locally) finite fractional Caccioppoli alpha-perimeter and we define its fractional reduced boundary mathscrFalphaE. We are able to show that Walpha,1(mathbbRn)subsetBValpha(mathbbRn) continuously and, similarly, that sets with (locally) finite standard fractional alpha-perimeter have (locally) finite fractional Caccioppoli alpha-perimeter, so that our theory provides a natural extension of the known fractional framework. Our main result partially extends De Giorgi's Blow-up Theorem to sets of locally finite fractional Caccioppoli alpha-perimeter, proving existence of blow-ups and giving a first characterisation of these (possibly non-unique) limit sets.





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