Asymptotic relations of the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu type for mappings between singular spaces

Abstract

We explore the asymptotic behavior of families of Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu type nonlocal functionals for mappings from metric measure spaces to arbitrary metric spaces. As the first outcome, we obtain a characterization of Sobolev maps and of maps of bounded variation via such functionals. As the second outcome, we establish precise expressions of the limits of such functionals for Sobolev maps. All this provides an extension of several Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu type results to the entirely singular setting.