Homogenization for Nonlocal Evolution Problems with Three Different Smooth Kernels.

In this paper we consider the homogenization of the evolution problem associated with a jump process that involves three different smooth kernels that govern the jumps to/from different parts of the domain. We assume that the spacial domain is divided into a sequence of two subdomains A n ∪ B n and we have three different smooth kernels, one that controls the jumps from A n to A n , a second one that controls the jumps from B n to B n and the third one that governs the interactions between A n and B n . Assuming that χ A n (x) → X (x) weakly in L ∞ (and then χ B n (x) → 1 - X (x) weakly in L ∞ ) as n → ∞ and that the initial condition is given by a density u 0 in L 2 we show that there is an homogenized limit system in which the three kernels and the limit function X appear. When the initial condition is a delta at one point, δ x ¯ (this corresponds to the process that starts at x ¯ ) we show that there is convergence along subsequences such that x ¯ ∈ A n j or x ¯ ∈ B n j for every n j large enough. We also provide a probabilistic interpretation of this evolution equation in terms of a stochastic process that describes the movement of a particle that jumps in Ω according to the three different kernels and show that the underlying process converges in distribution to a limit process associated with the limit equation. We focus our analysis in Neumann type boundary conditions and briefly describe at the end how to deal with Dirichlet boundary conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]