Norm-resolvent convergence of one-dimensional high-contrast periodic problems to a Kronig-Penney dipole-type model (Q507168)

The paper deals with operator-norm resolvent convergence estimates for differential operators with rapidly oscillating coefficients in the non-uniformly elliptic high-contrast setting, which has been out of reach of the existing homogenisation techniques. More precisely, the authors obtain the asymptotics, in the norm-resolvent sense, of a sequence of one-dimensional differential operators with periodic rapidly oscillating coefficients with high contrast: \[ -\big(a^\varepsilon(x/\varepsilon)u'\big)'-zu=f,\quad f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}),\quad \varepsilon>0, \quad z\in \mathbb{C}, \] where, for all \(\varepsilon>0,\) the coefficient \(a^\varepsilon\) is \(1\)-periodic and \[ a^\varepsilon(y)=\begin{cases} a_1 & \text{ for }y\in[0,l_1),\\ \varepsilon^2 & \text{ for }y\in[l_1,l_1+l_2),\\ a_3 & \text{ for }y\in[l_1+l_2,1) \end{cases} \] with \(a_1,a_3>0\) and \(0<l_1<l_1+l_2<1.\) The asymptotic analysis employed is based on a special representation of the resolvent of the operator in terms of the \(M\)-matrix of an associated boundary triple (``Krein resolvent formula''). The resulting asymptotic behaviour is shown to be described, up to a unitary transformation, by a non-standard version of the Kronig-Penney dipole-type model on \(\mathbb{R}.\)