Homogenization of a stochastic nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with a large reaction term: the almost periodic framework (Q439252)

The paper under review studies the homogenization problem for the SPDE \[ d u_{\varepsilon} = \bigg( \text{div} \bigg( a \bigg( \frac{x}{\varepsilon}, \frac{t}{\varepsilon^2} \bigg) Du_{\varepsilon} + \frac{1}{\varepsilon} g \bigg( \frac{x}{\varepsilon}, \frac{t}{\varepsilon^2}, u_{\varepsilon} \bigg) \bigg) dt + M \bigg( \frac{x}{\varepsilon}, \frac{t}{\varepsilon^2}, u_{\varepsilon} \bigg) dW \quad \text{in } Q_T \] with boundary conditions \(u_{\varepsilon} = 0\) on \(\partial Q \times (0,T)\) and \(u_{\varepsilon}(x,0) = u^0(x)\) in \(Q\) in the almost periodic environment, where \(Q\) denotes a Lipschitz domain of \(\mathbb{R}^N\), where \(Q_T\) denotes the cylinder \(Q_T = Q \times (0,T)\) for some positive real number \(T > 0\), and where \(W\) denotes a \(m\)-dimensional standard Wiener process. Under appropriate regularity conditions on the coefficients, the authors prove the convergence \(u_{\varepsilon} \rightarrow u_0\) in probability for \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\), where \(u_0\) denotes the solution of the SPDE \[ du_0 = (\text{div}(b D u_0) + \text{div} F_1(u_0) - F_2(u_0) \cdot Du_0 - F_3(u_0)) dt + \widetilde{M}(u_0) d \bar{W} \quad \text{in } Q_T \] with boundary conditions \(u_0 = 0\) on \(\partial Q \times (0,T)\) and \(u_0(x,0) = u^0(x)\) in \(Q\). This theorem is obtained by utilizing a generalized concept of \(\Sigma\)-convergence for stochastic processes. Some applications illustrate the result.