Homogenization for non-self-adjoint locally periodic elliptic operators

Abstract

We study the homogenization problem for matrix strongly elliptic operators on $L_2({\mathbb{R}}^d{)}^n$ of the form ${\mathcal{A}}^{\epsilon }=-\mathrm{div}A(x,x/\epsilon )\nabla$. The function $A$ is Lipschitz in the first variable and periodic in the second. We do not require that $A^{\ast }=A$, so ${\mathcal{A}}^{\epsilon }$ need not be self-adjoint. In this paper, we provide, for small $\epsilon$, two terms in the uniform approximation for $({\mathcal{A}}^{\epsilon }-\mu {)}^{-1}$ and a first term in the uniform approximation for $\nabla ({\mathcal{A}}^{\epsilon }-\mu {)}^{-1}$. Primary attention is paid to proving sharp-order bounds on the errors of the approximations.

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• Interior error estimate for periodic homogenization