학술논문

Another Look at Elliptic Homogenization
Document Type
Original Paper
Source
Milan Journal of Mathematics: Issued by the Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano. 92(1):1-23
Subject
Γ-convergence
Non-local functionals
Fractional Sobolev spaces
Homogenization
49J45
35B27
35R11
Language
English
ISSN
1424-9286
1424-9294
Abstract
We consider the limit of sequences of normalized (s, 2)-Gagliardo seminorms with an oscillating coefficient as s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1. In a seminal paper by Bourgain et al. (Another look at Sobolev spaces. In: Optimal control and partial differential equations. IOS, Amsterdam, pp 439–455, 2001) it is proven that if the coefficient is constant then this sequence s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1-converges to a multiple of the Dirichlet integral. Here we prove that, if we denote by s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1 the scale of the oscillations and we assume that s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1, this sequence converges to the homogenized functional formally obtained by separating the effects of s and s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1; that is, by the homogenization as s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1 of the Dirichlet integral with oscillating coefficient obtained by formally letting s→1Γε1-s<<ε2εε→0s→1 first.