Homogenization for locally periodic elliptic operators (Q2235974)

In the paper under review, the author investigates the homogenization problem for matrix strongly elliptic operators. More precisely, the author considers uniformly bounded functions \(A_{kl} \colon \mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}\), \(k,l \in \{1,\dots,d\}\), that are Lipschitz in the first variable and periodic in the second. Then the operator \[ \mathcal{A}^\varepsilon =-\sum_{k,l=1}^d\partial_kA_{kl}(x,\varepsilon^{-1}x)\partial_l \] is defined. Under the assumption that for \(\varepsilon\) close to zero the operator \(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon\) is coercive, the author obtains approximations for \((\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon-\mu)^{-1}\) and \(\nabla(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon-\mu)^{-1}\) with \(\mu\) outside of the spectrum of \(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon\). In particular, under suitable assumptions, it is shown that \[ \|(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon-\mu)^{-1}-(\mathcal{A}^0-\mu)^{-1}\|_{L_2\to L_2}\leq C\varepsilon\, , \] \[ \|(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon-\mu)^{-1}-(\mathcal{A}^0-\mu)^{-1}-\varepsilon \mathcal{C}^\varepsilon_\mu\|_{L_2 \to L_2}\leq C\varepsilon^2\, , \] and \[ \|\nabla(\mathcal{A}^\varepsilon-\mu)^{-1}-\nabla(\mathcal{A}^0-\mu)^{-1}-\varepsilon \nabla \mathcal{K}^\varepsilon_\mu\|_{L_2 \to L_2}\leq C\varepsilon\, , \] \(\mathcal{A}^0\) being the effective operator and \(\mathcal{C}^\varepsilon\), \(\mathcal{K}^\varepsilon\) the correctors.