A central limit theorem for the effective conductance: linear boundary data and small ellipticity contrasts

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2024-YMaRDI QIDQ2016049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Biskup, Michele Salvi, Tilman Wolff

Publication date 18 June 2014

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2371

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremeffective conductancehomogenizationmartingale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: Given a resistor network on $mathbb{Z}^d$ with nearest-neighbor conductances, the effective conductance in a finite set with a given boundary condition is the the minimum of the Dirichlet energy over functions with the prescribed boundary values. For shift-ergodic conductances, linear (Dirichlet) boundary conditions and square boxes, the effective conductance scaled by the volume of the box converges to a deterministic limit as the box-size tends to infinity. Here we prove that, for i.i.d. conductances with a small ellipticity contrast, also a (non-degenerate) central limit theorem holds. The proof is based on the corrector method and the Martingale Central Limit Theorem; a key integrability condition is furnished by the Meyers estimate. More general domains, boundary conditions and ellipticity contrasts will be addressed in a subsequent paper.

Review text

The principal results of this work belongs to the class of homogenization problems, which are sufficiently important not only from mathematical but from the physical point of view since they provide a background to the usage of continual macroscopic equations instead of detailed consideration of complex microscopic processes. Here the effective conductance defined via the total electric current through the network of resistors at the condition of fixed boundary voltage is considered for the case of slightly random fluctuations of local microscopic conductances. The principal results is the fact that the asymptotic effective conductance admits the Gaussian distribution when the box size tends to infinity, i.e. a kind of central limit theorem for the electrodynamical problem. The important assumption is the Dirichlet boundary conditions stated for the box. This importance is provided by a clear physical naturality of the situation (in contrast to the previously known cases of periodic boundary conditions). The proof is based on a martingale approximation, stationary edge ordering and the introduced finite-volume harmonic coordinates.

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