Principle of additivity in averaging of degenerate nonlinear Dirichlet problems

Abstract

We study the problem of averaging of Dirichlet problems for degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations of the second order in domains with fine-grained boundary under the condition that the weight function belongs to a certain Muckenhoupt class. We prove a pointwise estimate for solutions of the model degenerate nonlinear problem. The averaged boundary-value problem is constructed under new structural conditions for a perforated domain. In particular, we do not assume that the diameters of cavities are small as compared with the distances between them.