Homogenization of Liouville equations beyond a stationary ergodic setting (Q2180934)

The paper under review deals with the homogenization of Liouville equations for non-crystalline materials, where the coefficients are given by the composition of stationary functions with stochastic deformations. More precisely, the authors study the asymptotic behavior of the solution \(f^\epsilon\) to the Liouville equation in the following Cauchy problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} &\partial_t f^\epsilon (t,x,\xi,\omega)+\xi\cdot \nabla_xf^\epsilon (t,x,\xi,\omega) \nonumber\\ &\qquad+\frac{1}{\epsilon}\mathbf{c}\Big(\Phi^{-1}\Big(\frac{x}{\epsilon},\omega\Big),\omega\Big)\cdot \nabla_\xi f^\epsilon(t,x,\xi,\omega)=0\qquad \mathrm{in}\ \mathbb{R}_+^{2n+1}\times \Omega\, ,\nonumber\\ &f^\epsilon(0,x,\xi,\omega)=f^0\Big(x, \Phi^{-1}\Big(\frac{x}{\epsilon},\omega\Big),\xi,\omega\Big)\quad\qquad\qquad \mathrm{in}\ \mathbb{R}^{2n}\times \Omega\, ,\nonumber \end{array} \right. \] where \(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}_+\equiv (0,+\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^{2n}\) and \(\Omega\) is a probability space. The vector-valued function \(\mathbf{c}\) and the initial data \(f^0\) are random perturbations accomplished by stochastic diffeomporhisms of stationary functions. The problem under investigation is related to the behavior of moving electrons in non-crystalline solids. The authors show that, under suitable assumptions, the weak solution \(f^\epsilon\) of the above Cauchy problem can be written as \[ \begin{array}{ll} f^\epsilon(t,x,\xi,\omega)=&f\Big(t, x, \Phi^{-1}\Big(\frac{x}{\epsilon},\omega\Big),\xi,\omega\Big)+g\Big(t, x, \frac{t}{\epsilon}, \Phi^{-1}\Big(\frac{x}{\epsilon},\omega\Big),\xi,\omega\Big)\nonumber\\ &+r^\epsilon(t,x,\xi,\omega)\, ,\nonumber \end{array}\] where \(r^\epsilon \to 0\) as \(\epsilon \to 0\) and \(f\) and \(g\) solve some specific macroscopic evolution equations.