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A basic homogenization problem for the $p$-Laplacian in ${\mathbb R}^d$ perforated along a sphere: $L^\infty$ estimates (2205.07133v2)

Published 14 May 2022 in math.AP and math.PR

Abstract: We consider a boundary value problem for the $p$-Laplacian, posed in the exterior of small cavities that all have the same $p$-capacity and are anchored to the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}d$, where $1<p<d.$ We assume that the distance between anchoring points is at least $\varepsilon$ and the characteristic diameter of cavities is $\alpha \varepsilon$, where $\alpha=\alpha(\varepsilon)$ tends to 0 with $\varepsilon$. We also assume that anchoring points are asymptotically uniformly distributed as $\varepsilon \downarrow 0$, and their number is asymptotic to a positive constant times $\varepsilon^{1-d}$. The solution $u=u^\varepsilon$ is required to be 1 on all cavities and decay to 0 at infinity. Our goal is to describe the behavior of solutions for small $\varepsilon\>0$. We show that the problem possesses a critical window characterized by $\tau:=\lim_{\varepsilon \downarrow 0}\alpha /\alpha_c \in (0,\infty)$, where $\alpha_c=\varepsilon{1/\gamma}$ and $\gamma= \frac{d-p}{p-1}.$ We prove that outside the unit sphere, as $\varepsilon\downarrow 0$, the solution converges to $A_U$ for some constant $A_$, where $U(x)=\min{1,|x|{-\gamma}}$ is the radial $p$-harmonic function outside the unit ball. Here the constant $A_$ equals 0 if $\tau=0$, while $A_=1$ if $\tau=\infty$. In the critical window where $\tau$ is positive and finite, $ A_\in(0,1)$ is explicitly computed in terms of the parameters of the problem. We also evaluate the limiting $p$-capacity in all three cases mentioned above. Our key new tool is the construction of an explicit ansatz function $u_{A_}\varepsilon$ that approximates the solution $u\varepsilon$ in $L{\infty}(\mathbb{R}d)$ and satisfies $|\nabla u\varepsilon-\nabla u_{A_*}\varepsilon |_{L{p}(\mathbb{R}d)} \to 0$ as $\varepsilon \downarrow 0$.

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