Periodic and stochastic homogenization of general nonlocal operators with oscillating coefficients

Abstract

This paper investigates homogenization problems for the nonlocal operators with rapidly oscillating coefficients in the cases of periodic and random statistically homogeneous micro-structures. These operators involve the fractional Laplacian and some operators compared to it. Based on the $\Gamma$-convergence method and compactness arguments, we prove the homogenization theorems for these nonlocal operators with product-type and symmetric coefficient-structured kernels respectively. Furthermore, these results are extended to general nonlinear nonlocal equations.

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