Homogenization and averaging in the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu limit
Abstract
We study the simultaneous asymptotic behaviour of homogenization and the Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu limit for quadratic fractional energies with periodic coefficients. The functionals depend on two small parameters: the period of the coefficients and the fractional exponent approaching the local limit. We prove that the Γ-limit is completely determined by the relative scaling of these parameters. In the two extreme regimes, one recovers the expected separation of scales, yielding either the homogenized Dirichlet energy or the energy with averaged coefficients. At the critical logarithmic scaling, however, the two mechanisms coexist, and the limit is a convex combination of the homogenized and averaged energies, with weights depending explicitly on the relative scaling of the two asymptotic processes. The proof combines the homogenization analysis of the short-range interactions with a blow-up argument showing that long-range interactions are simply averaged using a Riemann--Lebesgue-type argument.
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BibTeX
@misc{braides2026homogenization,
title = {{Homogenization and averaging in the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu limit}},
author = {Andrea Braides and Stefano Mannella and Alec Jacopo Almo Schiavoni Piazza},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.21933},
eprint = {2609.21933},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21933},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Homogenization and averaging in the Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu limit
AU - Andrea Braides
AU - Stefano Mannella
AU - Alec Jacopo Almo Schiavoni Piazza
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.21933
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21933
AB - We study the simultaneous asymptotic behaviour of homogenization and the Bourgain--Brezis--Mironescu limit for quadratic fractional energies with periodic coefficients. The functionals depend on two small parameters: the period of the coefficients and the fractional exponent approaching the local limit. We prove that the Γ-limit is completely determined by the relative scaling of these parameters. In the two extreme regimes, one recovers the expected separation of scales, yielding either the homogenized Dirichlet energy or the energy with averaged coefficients. At the critical logarithmic scaling, however, the two mechanisms coexist, and the limit is a convex combination of the homogenized and averaged energies, with weights depending explicitly on the relative scaling of the two asymptotic processes. The proof combines the homogenization analysis of the short-range interactions with a blow-up argument showing that long-range interactions are simply averaged using a Riemann--Lebesgue-type argument.
ER -