The two-scale convergence method applied to generalized Besicovitch spaces (Q4470752)

This paper contains several types of results. First, a compactness result is obtained for reflexive Banach spaces, generalizing the classical theorem on weak compactness of the unit ball in a reflexive space. Second, the authors are concerned with a generalization of Besicovitch spaces (apparently, first introduced by Besicovitch for a generalizatlon of Bohr's almost periodic functions; such spaces are also known as Marcinkiewicz spaces). Further preparation is needed in order to present the two-scale convergence method. The main purpose of these interesting preliminaries seems to be the treatment of a nonlinear PDE, namely, \(\text{div}\,a(x/\varepsilon,u_\varepsilon,\nabla u_\varepsilon) +f = 0\) in the space \(W^{-1,p'}(\Omega)\), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N\), under condition \(u_\varepsilon\in W^{1,p}(\Omega)\), where \(a:\mathbb R^N\to \mathbb R^N\). If the above equation possesses a solution for each \(\varepsilon >0\), then a limit does exist under extra conditions on the data, and it can be determlned from a two-scale homogenized system which is constructed by the authors. The details of this research require more space than we can afford here.