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Research Report MRR00-002

On second-order almost-periodic elliptic operators

N. Dungey, A.F.M. ter Elst and Derek W. Robinson

Abstract: We consider second-order, strongly elliptic, operators H with complex almost-periodic coefficients in divergence form on Rd. First, we prove that the corresponding heat kernel is Hölder continuous and we derive Gaussian bounds with the correct small and large time asymptotic behaviour on the kernel and its Hölder derivatives. Secondly, we establish that the kernel has a variety of properties of almost-periodicity. Thirdly, we demonstrate that the kernel of the homogenization $\widehat H$ of H is the leading term in the asymptotic expansion of t->Kt.

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