Multiscale Young measures in homogenization of continuous stationary processes in compact spaces and applications (Q1011426)

The paper deals with a framework for the study of nonlinear homogenization problems for stationary continuous processes in compact spaces. A stationary continuous process is a mapping \((x,\omega) \to f(T(x)\omega),\) where \(x \in \mathbb{R}^n, \omega \in Q,\) \(f \in C(Q)\) and \(T(x): Q \to Q\) is an \(n\)-dimensional continuous dynamical system on a compact space \(Q\) endowed with some invariant measure. For almost all \(\omega \in Q\) the realization \( f(T(x)\omega)\) belongs to algebra with mean value, i.e., an algebra of functions in the space of bounded uniformly continuous real-valued functions in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) containing all translates of its elements and such that each of its elements possesses a mean value. Authors prove that there exist a compact space \(\mathcal{K}\) and an isometric isomorphism identifying the algebra with mean value with the algebra \(C(\mathcal{K})\) of continuous functions on \(\mathcal{K}\) endowed with a continuous \(n\)-dimensional dynamical system \(T(x): \mathcal{K} \to \mathcal{K}\) and an invariant Radon probability measure \(\mu.\) The existence of multiscale Young measures from homogenization in algebras with mean value is proved. These results are applied to the homogenization problem of porous medium type equation in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with a stationary continuous process as a stiff oscillatory external source, and oscillatory initial data satisfying a stationary equation in the oscillatory variable.