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Consider the one-dimensional elliptic operator given by \begin{equation*} (L_\epsilon f)(x) \;=\; b (x) \, f'(x) \,+\, \epsilon\, a (x)\, f''(x) \;, \end{equation*} where the drift $b\colon R \to R$ and the diffusion coefficient $a\colon R…
This paper establishes a complete homogenization theory for the one-dimensional parabolic equation with long-range correlated random potential: \[ \partial_t u_\varepsilon(t,x) = \frac{1}{2} \partial_{xx} u_\varepsilon(t,x) +…
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