The stochastic acceleration problem in two dimensions (Q2472732)

\textit{H. Kesten} and \textit{G. C. Papanicolaou} [Commun. Math. Phys. 78, 19--63 (1980; Zbl 0454.60007)] obtained a diffiusive limit theorem on random potentials in dimension \(\geq 3\). This result says that the momentum of a particle moving in a weakly random Hamiltonian field approaches in the long time limit the Brownian motion on the level set of the Hamiltonian in the momentum space. The position of the particle follows the trajectory generated by this momentum process. In the paper under review, the authors obtain, under the same assumptions as Kesten and Papanicolaou, an analogous result in the two-dimensional case. They prove that the momentum of a particle moving in a two-dimensional spatially homogeneous mixing potential converges to the Brownian motion on a cicle. Apparently, this result in dimension \(2\) cannot be obtained by the methods used by Kesten and Papanicolaou in dimension \(\geq 3\).