Homogenization of Viscous Sublinear Hamilton--Jacobi Equations with $u/\epsilon$-Dependence

Abstract

We study the periodic homogenization of a class of viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equations with fast dependence on the unknown. This problem combines features of first-order Hamilton--Jacobi equations with \(u^\epsilon/\epsilon\)-periodic Hamiltonians and semilinear heat equations with rapidly oscillating positive potentials. In this paper, we prove qualitative homogenization results for $H(y,s,p)=F(s,p)+\eta W(y,s,p)$ when $|\eta|$ is sufficiently small, with the smallness threshold depending on the Lipschitz constant of the initial datum, and establish a large-time averaging result for a general class of evolutionary cell problems.