Variational analysis of nonlocal Dirichlet problems in periodically perforated domains

Abstract

In this paper we consider a family of non local functionals of convolution-type depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$ and $Γ$-converging to local functionals defined on Sobolev spaces as $\varepsilon\to 0$. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the functionals when the order parameter is subject to Dirichlet conditions on a periodically perforated domains, given by a periodic array of small balls of radius $r_δ$ centered on a $δ$--periodic lattice, being $δ> 0$ an additional small parameter and $r_δ=o(δ)$. We highlight differences and analogies with the local case, according to the interplay between the three scales $\varepsilon$, $δ$ and $r_δ$. A fundamental tool in our analysis turns out to be a non local variant of the classical Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolev inequality in Sobolev spaces which may be of independent interest and useful for other applications.