Transmission conditions obtained by homogenisation

Abstract

Given a bounded open set in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, $n\ge 2$, and a sequence $(K_j)$ of compact sets converging to an $(n-1)$-dimensional manifold $M$, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions to some minimum problems for integral functionals on $\Omega \setminus K_j$, with Neumann boundary conditions on $\partial (\Omega \setminus K_j)$. We prove that the limit of these solutions is a minimiser of the same functional on $\Omega \setminus M$ subjected to a transmission condition on $M$, which can be expressed through a measure $\mu$ supported on $M$. The class of all measures that can be obtained in this way is characterised, and the link between the measure $\mu$ and the sequence $(K_j)$ is expressed by means of suitable local minimum problems.