abstract: I will describe some recent results on the asymptotics of the fractional s-perimeter of Riemannian manifolds, as s tends to zero. We will introduce the fractional Laplacian and fractional perimeter on complete (also non-compact) Riemannian manifolds, and I will show how our result generalizes the existing results on this asymptotics. Lastly, I will give some ideas on why this asymptotics detects the existence of bounded harmonic functions on the base manifold. This is joint work with Luca Gennaioli (SISSA).