Compactness by Coarse-Graining in long-range lattice systems

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We consider energies on a periodic set

m a t h c a l L

of

{m a t h b b R}^{d}

of the form

s u m_{i, j i n m a t h c a l L} a^{v} a r e p s i l o n_{i j} | u_{i} - u_{j} |

, defined on spin functions

u_{i} i n 0, 1

, and we suppose that the typical range of the interactions is

R_{v} a r e p s i l o n

with

R_{v} a r e p s i l o n o + i n f t y

, i.e., if

| i - j | l e R_{v} a r e p s i l o n

then

a^{v} a r e p s i l o n_{i j} g e c > 0

. In a discrete-to-continuum analysis, we prove that the overall behaviour as

v a r e p s i l o n o 0

of such functionals is that of an interfacial energy. The proof is performed using a coarse-graining procedure which associates to scaled functions defined on

v a r e p s i l o n m a t h c a l L

with equibounded energy a family of sets with equibounded perimeter. This agrees with the case of equibounded

R_{v} a r e p s i l o n

and can be seen as an extension of coerciveness result for short-range interactions, but is different from that of other long-range interaction energies, whose limit exits the class of surface energies. A computation of the limit energy is performed in the case

m a t h c a l L = {m a t h b b Z}^{d}

.

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