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Regularity and stochastic homogenization of fully nonlinear equations without uniform ellipticity
We prove regularity and stochastic homogenization results for certain
degenerate elliptic equations in nondivergence form. The equation is required
to be strictly elliptic, but the ellipticity may oscillate on the microscopic
scale and is only assumed to have a finite th moment, where is the
dimension. In the general stationary-ergodic framework, we show that the
equation homogenizes to a deterministic, uniformly elliptic equation, and we
obtain an explicit estimate of the effective ellipticity, which is new even in
the uniformly elliptic context. Showing that such an equation behaves like a
uniformly elliptic equation requires a novel reworking of the regularity
theory. We prove deterministic estimates depending on averaged quantities
involving the distribution of the ellipticity, which are controlled in the
macroscopic limit by the ergodic theorem. We show that the moment condition is
sharp by giving an explicit example of an equation whose ellipticity has a
finite th moment, for every , but for which regularity and
homogenization break down. In probabilistic terms, the homogenization results
correspond to quenched invariance principles for diffusion processes in random
media, including linear diffusions as well as diffusions controlled by one
controller or two competing players.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP833 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Fundamental solutions of homogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations
We prove the existence of two fundamental solutions and
of the PDE for
any positively homogeneous, uniformly elliptic operator . Corresponding to
are two unique scaling exponents which
describe the homogeneity of and . We give a sharp
characterization of the isolated singularities and the behavior at infinity of
a solution of the equation , which is bounded on one side. A
Liouville-type result demonstrates that the two fundamental solutions are the
unique nontrivial solutions of in
which are bounded on one side in a neighborhood of the origin as well as at
infinity. Finally, we show that the sign of each scaling exponent is related to
the recurrence or transience of a stochastic process for a two-player
differential game.Comment: 35 pages, typos and minor mistakes correcte
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