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MiS Preprint
47/2016
A Liouville theorem for elliptic systems with degenerate ergodic coefficients
Peter Bella, Benjamin Fehrman and Felix Otto
Abstract
We study the behavior of second-order degenerate elliptic systems in divergence form with random coefficients which are stationary and ergodic. Assuming moment bounds like Chiarini and Deuschel [Arxiv preprint 1410.4483, 2014] on the coefficient field $a$ and its inverse, we prove an intrinsic large-scale $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity estimate for $a$-harmonic functions and obtain a first-order Liouville theorem for subquadratic $a$-harmonic functions.
