Concentration phenomena for neutronic multigroup diffusion in random environments (Q2450582)

The authors study the behavior, as \(\varepsilon\rightarrow 0,\) of the principal eigenvalue and eigenfunction of the weakly coupled, cooperative elliptic system \[ -\varepsilon^2\mathrm{tr}(A_{\alpha}(\frac{x}{\varepsilon},\omega)D^2\varphi_{\alpha}^\varepsilon) +\varepsilon b_{\alpha}(\frac{x}{\varepsilon},\omega)D\varphi_{\alpha}^\varepsilon +\sum_{\beta=1}^mC_{\alpha\beta}(\frac{x}{\varepsilon},\omega)\varphi_{\beta}^\varepsilon \] \[ =\lambda_{\varepsilon}\sum_{\beta=1}^m\sigma_{\alpha\beta}(\frac{x}{\varepsilon},\omega) \varphi_{\beta}^\varepsilon \text{ in }U \,(\alpha=1,\dots,m), \] subject to the conditions \[ \varphi_{\alpha}^\varepsilon>0 \text{ in }U \,\text{ and }\,\varphi_{\alpha}^\varepsilon=0 \text{ on }\, \partial U \;(\alpha=1,\dots,m). \] Here \(m\) is a positive integer and \( U\subseteq \mathbb R^d \) is a bounded domain. The unknowns are the eigenvalue \(\lambda_\varepsilon=\lambda_\varepsilon(\omega,U) \) and the eigenfunctions \( (\varphi_{\alpha}^\varepsilon(\cdot,\omega))_{1\leq\alpha\leq m},\) the coefficients \(A_{\alpha}\), \(b_{\alpha}\), \(C_{\alpha\beta}\), and \(\sigma_{\alpha\beta}\) are functions on \(\mathbb R^d\times\Omega\). The main result is the assertion that there exists a deterministic constant \(\lambda\) such that, as \(\varepsilon\rightarrow 0\), \(\lambda_\varepsilon\rightarrow\bar{\lambda}\) almost surely in \(\Omega\), together with a characterization of \(\bar{\lambda}\).