Critical Sets of Solutions of Elliptic Equations in Periodic Homogenization

DOI10.1002/CPA.22186arXiv2203.13393OpenAlexW4388864124MaRDI QIDQ6394657FDOQ6394657

Zhongwei Shen, Fanghua Lin

Publication date: 24 March 2022

Abstract: In this paper we study critical sets of solutions $u_e$ of second-order elliptic equations in divergence form with rapidly oscillating and periodic coefficients. We show that the $(d-2)$-dimensional Hausdorff measures of the critical sets are bounded uniformly with respect to the period $e$, provided that doubling indices for solutions are bounded. The key step is an estimate of "turning " for the projection of a non-constant solution $u_e$ onto the subspace of spherical harmonics of order $ell$, when the doubling index for $u_e$ on a sphere $partialB(0,r)$ is trapped between $ell-delta$ and $ell+delta$, for $r$ between $1$ and a minimal radius $r^{*}ge{C}_{0}e$. This estimate is proved by using harmonic approximation successively. With a suitable $L^2$ renormalization as well as rescaling we are able to control the accumulated errors introduced by homogenization and projection. Our proof also gives uniform bounds for Minkowski contents of the critical sets.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.22186

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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