Title: An introduction to the qualitative and quantitative theory of homogenization,
Abstract: We present an introduction to periodic and stochastic homogenization of
ellip- tic partial differential equations. The first part is concerned with the
qualitative theory, which we present for equations with periodic and random
coefficients in a unified approach based on Tartar's method of oscillating test
functions. In partic- ular, we present a self-contained and elementary argument
for the construction of the sublinear corrector of stochastic homogenization.
(The argument also applies to elliptic systems and in particular to linear
elasticity). In the second part we briefly discuss the representation of the
homogenization error by means of a two- scale expansion. In the last part we
discuss some results of quantitative stochastic homogenization in a discrete
setting. In particular, we discuss the quantification of ergodicity via
concentration inequalities, and we illustrate that the latter in combi- nation
with elliptic regularity theory leads to a quantification of the growth of the
sublinear corrector and the homogenization error.