On the BBM-phenomenon in fractional Poincar\'e-Sobolev inequalities with weights

Abstract

In this paper we unify and improve some of the results of Bourgain, Brezis and Mironescu and the weighted Poincar\'e-Sobolev estimate by Fabes, Kenig and Serapioni. More precisely, we get weighted counterparts of the Poincar\'e-Sobolev type inequality and also of the Hardy type inequality in the fractional case under some mild natural restrictions. A main feature of the results we obtain is the fact that we keep track of the behaviour of the constants involved when the fractional parameter approaches to $1$. Our main method is based on techniques coming from harmonic analysis related to the self-improving property of generalized Poincar\'e inequalities.