Quantitative nonlinear homogenization: control of oscillations

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Abstract: Quantitative stochastic homogenization of linear elliptic operators is by now well-understood. In this contribution we move forward to the nonlinear setting of monotone operators with p-growth. This work is dedicated to a quantitative two-scale expansion result. By treating the range of exponents 2lep<infty in dimensions dle3, we are able to consider genuinely nonlinear elliptic equations and systems such as −ablacdotA(x)(1+|ablau|p−2)ablau=f (with A random, non-necessarily symmetric) for the first time. When going from p=2 to p>2, the main difficulty is to analyze the associated linearized operator, whose coefficients are degenerate, unbounded, and depend on the random input A via the solution of a nonlinear equation. One of our main achievements is the control of this intricate nonlinear dependence, leading to annealed Meyers' estimates for the linearized operator, which are key to the optimal quantitative two-scale expansion result we derive (this is also new in the periodic setting).


It is classical in homogenization theory the construction of correctors which, contrarily to the solutions of the macroscale problem, provide an approximation of the solutions in a strong topology. The goal of the quantitative homogenization is to estimate the error between the corrector and the solution. This paper is devoted to solve this problem in the case of nonlinear stochastic homogenization. Namely, the authors consider a nonlinear elliptic problem corresponding to a monotone operator with \(p\)-growth. The model problem corresponds to \(-\nabla\cdot A(\frac{x}{\varepsilon})(1+|\nabla u_\varepsilon|^{p-2})\nabla u_\varepsilon=f\) where \(2\leq p<\infty\) in dimension \(d\leq 3 \) and \(2\leq p<2(d-1)/(d-3)\) for \(d\geq 4\). The matrix function \(A\) satisfies the usual uniform ellipticity and bounding conditions, it is smooth and chosen randomly. The authors estimate the difference between the solutions of this equation and the corrector in the \(H^1\) topology. For this purpose, they provide annealed Meyers' estimates for the linearized operator.



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