Stochastic homogenization of quasilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations and geometric motions

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Abstract: We study random homogenization of second-order, degenerate and quasilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations which are positively homogeneous in the gradient. Included are the equations of forced mean curvature motion and others describing geometric motions of level sets as well as a large class of viscous, non-convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations. The main results include the first proof of qualitative stochastic homogenization for such equations. We also present quantitative error estimates which give an algebraic rate of homogenization.


This paper deals with time-dependent, quasilinear, viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations of the form \(\partial_{t}u^{\varepsilon}-\varepsilon\;\text{tr}(A(Du^{\varepsilon}/| Du^{\varepsilon}|,x/\varepsilon)D^2 u^{\varepsilon})+H(Du^{\varepsilon},x/\varepsilon)=0\) in \(\mathbb R^{d}\times(0,\infty)\). The diffusion matrix \(A(e,x)\) is assumed to be nonnegative definite for each \((e,x)\in\partial B_1\times \mathbb R^{d}\); the Hamiltonian \(H(\xi,x)\) is assumed to be positively homogeneous of order \(p\in [1,\infty)\) in \(\xi\), but is not necessarily convex in \(\xi\). Both \(A(e,\cdot)\) and \(H(\xi, \cdot)\) are assumed to be stationary random fields sampled by a probability measure \(P\) which satisfies a finite range of dependence. It is shown that \(u^{\varepsilon}\) converges locally uniformly, as \(\varepsilon\to0\), with \(P\)-probability one, to the solution \(u\) of a deterministic equation of the form \(\partial_{t} u+\bar H(Du)=0\) in \(\mathbb R^{d}\times (0,\infty)\), with an effective Hamiltonian \(\bar H:\;\mathbb R^{d}\to \mathbb R\) which has sublevel sets that are star-shaped with respect to the origin. The quantitative error estimates which give an algebraic rate of homogenization are presented.




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