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Normal approximation for the net flux through a random conductor

Probability 2014-06-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider solutions to an elliptic partial differential equation in Rd\mathbb{R}^d with a stationary, random conductivity coefficient. The boundary condition on a square domain of width LL is chosen so that the solution has a macroscopic unit gradient. We then consider the average flux through the domain. It is known that in the limit LL \to \infty, this quantity converges to a deterministic constant, almost surely. Our main result is about normal approximation for this flux when LL is large: we give an estimate of the Kantorovich-Wasserstein distance between the law of this random variable and that of a normal random variable. This extends a previous result of the author to a much larger class of random conductivity coefficients. The analysis relies on elliptic regularity, on bounds for the Green's function, and on a normal approximation method developed by S. Chatterjee based on Stein's method.

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@article{arxiv.1406.2186,
  title  = {Normal approximation for the net flux through a random conductor},
  author = {James Nolen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2186},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages

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