An embedded corrector problem to approximate the homogenized   coefficients of an elliptic equation
  We consider a diffusion equation with highly oscillatory coefficients that admits a homogenized limit. As an alternative to standard corrector problems, we introduce here an embedded corrector problem, written as a diffusion equation in the whole space in which the diffusion matrix is uniform outside some ball of radius $R$. Using that problem, we next introduce three approximations of the homogenized coefficients. These approximations, which are variants of the standard approximations obtained using truncated (supercell) corrector problems, are shown to converge when $R \to \infty$. We also discuss efficient numerical methods to solve the embedded corrector problem. 
Eric Cances, Virginie Ehrlacher, Frederic Legoll, Benjamin Stamm
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