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Publications and source records attributed to Arianna Giunti.
For a class of particle systems in continuous space with local interactions, we show that the asymptotic diffusion matrix is an infinitely differentiable function of the density of particles. Our method allows us to identify relatively explicit descriptions of the derivatives of the diffusion matrix in terms of correctors.
For a class of interacting particle systems in continuous space, we show that finite-volume approximations of the bulk diffusion matrix converge at an algebraic rate. The models we consider are reversible with respect to the Poisson measures with constant density, and are of non-gradient type. Our approach is inspired by recent progress in the quantitative homogenization of elliptic equations. Along the way, we develop suitable modifications of the Caccioppoli and multiscale Poincaré inequalities, which are of independent interest.
In this paper, we study the localization and propagation properties of the edge states associated to a class of magnetic laplacians in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We assume that the intensity of the magnetic field has a fast transition along a regular and compact curve $Γ$. Our main results extend to a general regular curve the study of the localised eigenfunction obtained when $Γ$ is a straight line (i.e. Iwatsuka models). Furthermore, we include in our analysis the case of magnetic fields that slowly change along the curve $Γ$ and we obtain a rigorous and explicit characterization of the asymptotic mass distribution of the edge state along $Γ$.
We consider the homogenization of a Poisson problem or a Stokes system in a randomly punctured domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We assume that the holes are spherical and have random centres and radii. We impose that the average distance between the balls is of size $\eps$ and their average radius is $\varepsilon^α$, $α\in (1; 3)$. We prove that, as in the periodic case [G. Allaire, ``Homogenization of the Navier-Stokes equations in domains perforated with tiny holes. II''], the solutions converge to the solution of Darcy's law (or its scalar analogue in the case of Poisson). In the same spirit of [A. Giunti, R. Höfer and J. Velázquez, ``Homogenization of the Poisson equation in randomly perforated domains under minimal assumptions on the size of the holes''], we work under minimal conditions on the integrability of the random radii. These ensure that the problem is well-defined but do not rule out the onset of clusters of holes.
We are interested in the spectral properties of the magnetic Schrödinger operator $H_\varepsilon$ in a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with compact boundary and with magnetic field of intensity $\varepsilon^{-2}$. We impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partialΩ$. Our main focus is the existence and description of the so-called \textit{edge states}, namely eigenfunctions for $H_{\varepsilon}$ whose mass is localized at scale $\varepsilon$ along the boundary $\partialΩ$. When the intensity of the magnetic field is large (i.e. $\varepsilon <<1$), we show that such edge states exist. Furthermore, we give a detailed description of their localization close to the boundary $\partialΩ$, as well as how their mass is distributed along it. From this result, we also infer asymptotic formulas for the eigenvalues of $H_\varepsilon$.
In this paper we provide converge rates for the homogenization of the Poisson problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a randomly perforated domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 3$. We assume that the holes that perforate the domain are spherical and are generated by a rescaled marked point process $(Φ, \mathcal{R})$. The point process $Φ$ generating the centres of the holes is either a Poisson point process or the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$; the marks $\mathcal{R}$ generating the radii are unbounded i.i.d random variables having finite $(d-2+β)$-moment, for $β> 0$. We study the rate of convergence to the homogenized solution in terms of the parameter $β$. We stress that, for certain values of $β$, the balls generating the holes may overlap with overwhelming probability.
We study the existence of the Green function for an elliptic system in divergence form $-\nabla\cdot a\nabla$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with $d>2$. The tensor field $a=a(x)$ is only assumed to be bounded and $λ$-coercive. For almost every point $y \in \mathbb{R}^d$, the existence of a Green's function $G(a; \cdot, y)$ centered in $y$ has been proven in [J. Conlon, A. Giunti and F.Otto, "Green's function for elliptic systems: Delmotte-Deuschel bounds", 2017]. In this paper, we show that the set of points $y \in \mathbb{R}^d$ for which $G(a; \cdot, y)$ does not exist has zero $p$-capacity, for an exponent $p >2$ depending only on the dimension $d$ and the ellipticity ratio of $a$.
We prove the homogenization to the Brinkman equations for the incompressible Stokes equations in a bounded domain which is perforated by a random collection of small spherical holes. The fluid satisfies a no-slip boundary condition at the holes. The balls generating the holes have centres distributed according to a Poisson point process and i.i.d. unbounded radii satisfying a suitable moment condition. We stress that our assumption on the distribution of the radii does not exclude that, with overwhelming probability, the holes contain clusters made by many overlapping balls. We show that the formation of these clusters has no effect on the limit Brinkman equations. Due to the incompressiblility condition and the lack of a maximum principle for the Stokes equations, our proof requires a very careful study of the geometry of the random holes generated by the class of probability measures considered.
We consider the homogenization to the Brinkman equations for the incompressible Stokes equations in a bounded domain which is perforated by a random collection of small spherical holes. This problem has been studied by the same authors in [A. Giunti and R.M. Höfer, Homogenization for the Stokes equations in randomly perforated domains under almost minimal assumptions on the size of the holes] where convergence of the fluid velocity field towards the solution of the Brinkman equations has been established. In the present we consider the pressure associated to the solution of the Stokes equations in the perforated domain. We prove that it is possible to extend this pressure inside the holes and slightly modify it in a region of asymptotically negligible harmonic capacity such that it weakly converges to the pressure associated with the solution of the Brinkman equations.
In this note we comment on the homogenization of a random elliptic operator in divergence form $-\nabla \cdot a\nabla$, where the coefficient field $a$ is distributed according to a stationary, but not necessarily ergodic, probability measure $P$. We generalize the well-known case for $P$ stationary and ergodic by showing that the operator $-\nabla \cdot a(\frac{\cdot}{\varepsilon})\nabla$ almost surely homogenizes to a constant-coefficient, random operator $-\nabla \cdot A_h\nabla$. Furthermore, we use a disintegration formula for $P$ with respect to a family of ergodic and stationary probability measures to show that the law of $A_h$ may be obtained by using the standard homogenization results on each probability measure of the previous family. We finally provide a more explicit formula for $A_h$ in the case of coefficient fields which are a function of a stationary Gaussian field.
We show a diffusive upper bound on the transition probability of a tagged particle in the symmetric simple exclusion process. The proof relies on optimal spectral gap estimates for the dynamics in finite volume, which are of independent interest. We also show off-diagonal estimates of Carne-Varopoulos type.
This paper deals with the homogenization of the Poisson equation in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d>2$, which is perforated by a random number of small spherical holes with random radii and positions. We show that for a class of stationary short-range correlated measures for the centres and radii of the holes, we recover in the homogenized limit an averaged analogue of the "strange term" obtained by Cioranescu and Murat in the periodic case [D. Cioranescu and F. Murat, \textit{Un term étrange venu d'ailleurs} (1986)]. We stress that we only require that the random radii have finite $(d-2)$-moment, which is the minimal assumption in order to ensure that the average of the capacity of the balls is finite. Under this assumption, there are holes which overlap with probability one. However, we show that homogenization occurs and that the clustering holes do not have any effect in the resulting homogenized equation.
In a homogeneous medium, the far-field generated by a localized source can be expanded in terms of multipoles; the coefficients are determined by the moments of the localized charge distribution. We show that this structure survives to some extent for a random medium in the sense of quantitative stochastic homogenization: In three space dimensions, the effective dipole and quadrupole - but not the octupole - can be inferred without knowing the realization of the random medium far away from the (overall neutral) source and the point of interest. Mathematically, this is achieved by using the two-scale expansion to higher order to construct isomorphisms between the hetero- and homogeneous versions of spaces of harmonic functions that grow at a certain rate, or decay at a certain rate away from the singularity (near the origin); these isomorphisms crucially respect the natural pairing between growing and decaying harmonic functions given by the second Green's formula. This not only yields effective multipoles (the quotient of the spaces of decaying functions) but also intrinsic moments (taken with respect to the elements of the spaces of growing functions). The construction of these rigid isomorphisms relies on a good (and dimension-dependent) control on the higher-order correctors and their flux potentials.
We study discrete linear divergence-form operators with random coefficients, also known as the random conductance model. We assume that the conductances are bounded, independent and stationary; the law of a conductance may depend on the orientation of the associated edge. We give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the relaxation of the environment seen by the particle to be diffusive, in the sense of every polynomial moment. As a consequence, we derive polynomial moment estimates on the corrector.
We prove that for an open domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d $ with $d \geq 2 $ , for every (measurable) uniformly elliptic tensor field $a$ and for almost every point $y \in D$ , there exists a unique Green's function centred in $ y $ associated to the vectorial operator $ -\nabla \cdot a\nabla $ in D. In particular, when $d > 2$ this result also implies the existence of the fundamental solution for elliptic systems, i.e. the Green function for $ -\nabla \cdot a\nabla $ in $ \mathbb{R}^d $. Moreover, introducing an ensemble $\langle\cdot \rangle$ over the set of uniformly elliptic tensor fields, under the assumption of stationarity we infer for the fundamental solution $G$ some pointwise bounds for $\langle |G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle$, $\langle|\nabla_x G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle$ and $\langle |\nabla_x\nabla_y G(\cdot; x,y)|\rangle$. These estimates scale optimally in space and provide a generalization to systems of the bounds obtained by Delmotte and Deuschel for the scalar case.
We study estimates of the Green's function in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \ge 2$, for the linear second order elliptic equation in divergence form with variable uniformly elliptic coefficients. In the case $d \ge 3$, we obtain estimates on the Green's function, its gradient, and the second mixed derivatives which scale optimally in space, in terms of the "minimal radius" $r_*$ introduced in [Gloria, Neukamm, and Otto: A regularity theory for random elliptic operators; ArXiv e-prints (2014)]. As an application, our result implies optimal stochastic Gaussian bounds in the realm of homogenization of equations with random coefficient fields with finite range of dependence. In two dimensions, where in general the Green's function does not exist, we construct its gradient and show the corresponding estimates on the gradient and mixed second derivatives. Since we do not use any scalar methods in the argument, the result holds in the case of uniformly elliptic systems as well.
This note addresses the homogenization error for linear elliptic equations in divergence-form with random stationary coefficients. The homogenization error is measured by comparing the quenched Green's function to the Green's function belonging to the homogenized coefficients, more precisely, by the (relative) spatial decay rate of the difference of their second mixed derivatives. The contribution of this note is purely deterministic: It uses the expanded notion of corrector, namely the couple of scalar and vector potentials $(ϕ,σ)$, and shows that the rate of sublinear growth of $(ϕ,σ)$ at the points of interest translates one-to-one into the decay rate.