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A Two scale $\Gamma$-convergence Approach for Random Non-Convex Homogenization

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-07 v4 Probability

Abstract

We propose an abstract framework for the homogenization of random functionals which may contain non-convex terms, based on a two-scale Γ\Gamma-convergence approach and a definition of Young measures on micropatterns which encodes the profiles of the oscillating functions and of functionals. Our abstract result is a lower bound for such energies in terms of a cell problem (on large expanding cells) and the Γ\Gamma-limits of the functionals at the microscale. We show that our method allows to retrieve the results of Dal Maso and Modica in the well-known case of the stochastic homogenization of convex Lagrangians. As an application, we also show how our method allows to stochastically homogenize a variational problem introduced and studied by Alberti and M\"uller, which is a paradigm of a problem where an additional mesoscale arises naturally due to the non-convexity of the singular perturbation (lower order) terms in the functional.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04344,
  title  = {A Two scale $\Gamma$-convergence Approach for Random Non-Convex Homogenization},
  author = {Leonid Berlyand and Etienne Sandier and Sylvia Serfaty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04344},
  year   = {2017}
}

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37 pages

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