Lipschitz regularity for elliptic equations with random coefficients

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Abstract: We develop a higher regularity theory for general quasilinear elliptic equations and systems in divergence form with random coefficients. The main result is a large-scale Linfty-type estimate for the gradient of a solution. The estimate is proved with optimal stochastic integrability under a one-parameter family of mixing assumptions, allowing for very weak mixing with non-integrable correlations to very strong mixing (e.g., finite range of dependence). We also prove a quenched L2 estimate for the error in homogenization of Dirichlet problems. The approach is based on subadditive arguments which rely on a variational formulation of general quasilinear divergence-form equations.


The authors prove that under certain mixing conditions on the coefficients a quasi-linear elliptic equation in divergence form \[ \operatorname{div}(A(\nabla u(x), x)) = 0 \] with random coefficients satisfies due to statistical effects (in contrast to a general equation of the above form) the large scale estimate \[ \frac{1}{|B_r|} \int_{B_r} |\nabla u(x)|^2 \, dx \leq C \left( 1 + \frac{1}{|B_R|} \int_{B_R} |\nabla u(x)|^2 \, dx \right) \] for all \(r \in [X, \frac{1}{2} R]\). Here \(X\) is a random variable giving the minimal radius for the estimate to hold. Furthermore, optimal stochastic integrability estimates on \(X\) are established for a broad range of mixing conditions on the coefficients.



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