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Homogenization of quasi-crystalline functionals via two-scale-cut-and-project convergence

Analysis of PDEs 2020-05-28 v1

Abstract

We consider a homogenization problem associated with quasi-crystalline multiple integrals of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} u_\varepsilon\in L^p(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^d) \mapsto \int_\Omega f_R\Big(x,\frac{x}{\varepsilon}, u_\varepsilon(x)\Big)\, dx, \end{aligned} \end{equation*} where uεu_\varepsilon is subject to constant-coefficient linear partial differential constraints. The quasi-crystalline structure of the underlying composite is encoded in the dependence on the second variable of the Lagrangian, fRf_R, and is modeled via the cut-and-project scheme that interprets the heterogeneous microstructure to be homogenized as an irrational subspace of a higher-dimensional space. A key step in our analysis is the characterization of the quasi-crystalline two-scale limits of sequences of the vector fields uεu_\varepsilon that are in the kernel of a given constant-coefficient linear partial differential operator, A\mathcal{A}, that is, Auε=0\mathcal{A} u _\varepsilon =0. Our results provide a generalization of related ones in the literature concerning the A=curl{\rm \mathcal{A} =curl } case to more general differential operators A\mathcal{A} with constant coefficients, and without coercivity assumptions on the Lagrangian fRf_R.

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@article{arxiv.2005.13356,
  title  = {Homogenization of quasi-crystalline functionals via two-scale-cut-and-project convergence},
  author = {Rita Ferreira and Irene Fonseca and Raghavendra Venkatraman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13356},
  year   = {2020}
}

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