Asymptotic Formulas for Negative Sobolev Norms and Applications
This paper establishes an asymptotic formula for negative Sobolev norms as the fractional order tends to zero. In the Euclidean setting, under a mild boundedness condition, the product of the order and the norm raised to the power $p$ converges to a dimension-independent constant multiple of the corresponding $L^p$ norm. The proof relies on heat-kernel regularization, weak compactness, and an Abelian--Tauberian argument. The result is further extended to a general measure space equipped with a family of bounded and continuous operators that covering nonlinear and non-semigroup settings. We also present several applications in analysis and probability, including an absolute-continuity criterion for measures, a random-distribution regularity result, a construction of square-integrable local times for fractional Brownian motion, and limiting formulas for truncated maximal operators and martingales.