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Stochastic homogenization of Gaussian fields on random media

Probability 2023-07-04 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this article, we study stochastic homogenization of non-homogeneous Gaussian free fields Ξg,a\Xi^{g,{\bf a}} and bi-Laplacian fields Ξb,a\Xi^{b,{\bf a}}. They can be characterized as follows: for f=δf=\delta the solution uu of au=f\nabla \cdot \mathbf{a} \nabla u =f, a{\bf a} is a uniformly elliptic random environment, is the covariance of Ξg,a\Xi^{g,{\bf a}}. When ff is the white noise, the field Ξb,a\Xi^{b,{\bf a}} can be viewed as the distributional solution of the same elliptic equation. Our results characterize the scaling limit of such fields on both, a sufficiently regular domain DRdD\subset \mathbb{R}^d, or on the discrete torus. Based on stochastic homogenization techniques applied to the eigenfunction basis of the Laplace operator Δ\Delta, we will show that such families of fields converge to an appropriate multiple of the GFF resp. bi-Laplacian. The limiting fields are determined by their respective homogenized operator \ahomΔ\ahom \Delta, with constant \ahom\ahom depending on the law of the environment a{\bf a}. The proofs are based on the results found in \cite{Armstrong2019} and \cite{gloria2014optimal}.

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@article{arxiv.2201.12013,
  title  = {Stochastic homogenization of Gaussian fields on random media},
  author = {Leandro Chiarini and Wioletta M. Ruszel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12013},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures

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