Combined Effects of Homogenization and Singular Perturbations: Quantitative Estimates

Abstract: We investigate quantitative estimates in periodic homogenization of second-order elliptic systems of elasticity with singular fourth-order perturbations. The convergence rates, which depend on the scale $\kappa$ that represents the strength of the singular perturbation and on the length scale $\epsilon$ of the heterogeneities, are established. We also obtain the large-scale Lipschitz estimate, down to the scale $\epsilon$ and independent of $\kappa$. This large-scale estimate, when combined with small-scale estimates, yields the classical Lipschitz estimate that is uniform in both $\epsilon$ and $\kappa$.