Homogenization of Non-Autonomous Operators of Convolution Type in Periodic Media

Abstract

The paper deals with periodic homogenization problem for a para- bolic equation whose elliptic part is a convolution type operator with rapidly oscillating coefficients. It is assumed that the coefficients are rapidly oscillating periodic functions both in spatial and temporal variables and that the scal- ing is diffusive, that is, the scaling factor of the temporal variable is equal to the square of the scaling factor of the spatial variable. Under the assumption that the convolution kernel has a nite second moment and that the operator is symmetric in spatial variables we show that the equation under study ad- mits homogenization, and we prove that the limit operator is a second order differential parabolic operator with constant coefficients.