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In this paper we consider a family of non local functionals of convolution-type depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$ and $\Gamma$-converging to local functionals defined on Sobolev spaces as $\varepsilon\to 0$. We study the…

We describe the asymptotic behaviour of the minimal heterogeneous $d$-capacity of a small set, which we assume to be a ball for simplicity, in a fixed bounded open set $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, with $d\geq2$. Two parameters are…

Let $\Omega$ be a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in \Omega$ and that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathrm{cl}\Omega$ is connected. Then we take $q_{11},..., q_{nn}\in ]0,+\infty[$ and $p \in…

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the discrete elastic energies in presence of the prestrain metric $G$, assigned on the continuum reference configuration $\Omega$. When the mesh size of the discrete lattice in $\Omega$ goes to zero, we…

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in a family of narrow unbounded domains. As the width of these domains goes to 0, we study the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues that lie below the essential spectrum and the asymptotic behavior of…

We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to Dirichlet problems in perforated domains for nonlinear elliptic equations associated with monotone operators. The main difference with respect to the previous papers on this subject is that…

We consider a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in \Omega$ and such that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \cl\Omega$ is connected. Then we choose a point $w \in ]0,1[^n$. If $\epsilon$ is a…

In this paper we analyze the asymptotic behavior of the Dirichlet fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta_{\mathbb R^{n+k}})^{s}$, with $s\in (0, 1)$, on bounded domains in $\mathbb R^{n+k}$ that become unbounded in the last $k$-directions. A…

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of a class of nonlinear variational problems with Robin-type boundary conditions on a bounded Lipschitz domain. The energy functional contains a bulk term (the $p$-norm of the gradient), a…

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of $u$-capacities of small sets and its application to the analysis of the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-Laplacian on a bounded planar domain with a small hole. More precisely, we consider two…

Let $\Omega$ be a sufficiently regular bounded open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $0 \in \Omega$ and that $\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \mathrm{cl}\Omega$ is connected. Then we take $(q_{11},\dots, q_{nn})\in ]0,+\infty[^n$ and $p…

We consider the Poisson equation with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions in a family of domains in $R^{n}$ indexed by a small parameter $\epsilon$. The domains depend on $\epsilon$ only within a ball of radius proportional to $\epsilon$ and,…

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of a family of random free-discontinuity energies $E_\varepsilon$ defined on a randomly perforated domain, as $\varepsilon$ goes to zero. The functionals $E_\varepsilon$ model the energy…

This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for Laplace operator in a bounded domain with periodic perforation in the case of small volume. We obtain the optimal quantitative error estimates independent of the spectral…

We prove that quadratic pair interactions for functions defined on planar Poisson clouds and taking into account pairs of sites of distance up to a certain (large-enough) threshold can be almost surely approximated by the multiple of the…

We study the continuum limit of discrete, nonconvex energy functionals defined on crystal lattices in dimensions $d\geq 2$. Since we are interested in energy functionals with random (stationary and ergodic) pair interactions, our problem…

In this work, we demonstrate that a functional modeling the self-aggregation of stochastically distributed lipid molecules can be obtained as the $\Gamma$-limit of a family of discrete energies driven by a sequence of independent and…

Discrete breathers are time-periodic, spatially localized solutions of the equations of motion for a system of classical degrees of freedom interacting on a lattice. We study the existence of energy thresholds for discrete breathers, i.e.,…

We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-clock model, a nearest neighbors ferromagnetic spin model on the $d$-dimensional cubic $\varepsilon$-lattice in which the spin field is constrained to take values in a discretization…

We consider the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a domain in R^d and study the effect that performing a scaling in one direction has on the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions as a function of the scaling…