Convergence Rates and Interior Estimates in Homogenization of Higher Order Elliptic Systems

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the quantitative homogenization of $2m$-order elliptic systems with bounded measurable, rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. We establish the sharp $O(\varepsilon)$ convergence rate in $W^{m-1, p_0}$ with $p_0=\frac{2d}{d-1}$ in a bounded Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ as well as the uniform large-scale interior $C^{m-1, 1}$ estimate. With additional smoothness assumptions, the uniform interior $C^{m-1, 1}$, $W^{m,p}$ and $C^{m-1, \alpha}$ estimates are also obtained. As applications of the regularity estimates, we establish asymptotic expansions for fundamental solutions.