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Inserted: 19 may 2022
Last Updated: 9 aug 2023

Journal: Port. Math.
Volume: 80
Number: 1-2
Pages: 1-25
Year: 2023
Doi: 10.4171/PM/2096

Abstract:

We prove that the local version of the chain rule cannot hold for the fractional variation defined in blow-up. In the case $n = 1$, we prove a stronger result, exhibiting a function $f \in BV^{\alpha}(\mathbb{R})$ such that $\vert f\vert \notin BV^{\alpha}(\mathbb{R})$. The failure of the local chain rule is a consequence of some surprising rigidity properties for non-negative functions with bounded fractional variation which, in turn, are derived from a fractional Hardy inequality localized to half-spaces. Our approach exploits the results of Leibniz rules and the distributional approach of the previous papers blow-up, asymptotics I, asymptotics II, fractional variation. As a byproduct, we refine the fractional Hardy inequality obtained in Shieh-Spector II, Spector and we prove a fractional version of the closely related Meyers-Ziemer trace inequality.

Keywords: Chain Rule, Fractional Gradient, fractional divergence, fractional variation, fractional Hardy inequality

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