Nonlinear Media via Nonlocal Homogenisation
Analysis of PDEs
2026-07-09 v1 Functional Analysis
Abstract
We consider a nonlinear PDE describing a nonlinear electrostatic medium with nonlocal dielectricity. The existence proof for the corresponding equation is based on Schauder's theorem and a new compactness theorem for moving coefficients (``Helga's Theorem''). This technique uses insights from (operator-theoretic/topological) homogenisation theory. Surprisingly, even though monotonicity assumptions are neither used nor valid, the underlying domain is only required to be weak Lipschitz and no assumption on the derivatives of the nonlinearity is needed.
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@article{arxiv.2607.08140,
title = {Nonlinear Media via Nonlocal Homogenisation},
author = {Andreas Buchinger and Nathanael Skrepek and Marcus Waurick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.08140},
year = {2026}
}
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12 pages