Stochastic homogenization of fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations revisited

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Abstract: We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In the latter case, we overcome difficulties caused by a lack of estimates for the first derivatives of approximate correctors by modifying the perturbed test function argument to take advantage of the spreading of the contact set.


Given \(\Omega\) a bounded Lipschitz domain of \({\mathbb R}^n\) and a function \(g \in C(\partial \Omega)\), the authors consider the family (in the parameter \(\varepsilon > 0\)) of problems \[ \begin{cases} F (D^2 u^{\varepsilon}, D u^{\varepsilon}, x / \varepsilon, \omega) = 0 &\text{in } \Omega, \\ u^{\varepsilon} = g & \text{in } \partial \Omega,\end{cases}\tag{P\(_\varepsilon\)} \] where \(F\) is a uniformly elliptic, Lipschitz continuous, stationary-ergodic and fully nonlinear operator. The authors prove a homogenization result giving a shorter and simplified proof using the obstacle method introduced by \textit{L. A. Caffarelli} et al. [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 58, No. 3, 319--361 (2005; Zbl 1063.35025)]. First, they drop the dependence of \(F\) on the gradient of \(u^{\varepsilon}\), then, in the general case, they introduce a suitable infimal convolution.











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