The statistics of particle trajectories in the homogeneous Sinai problem for a two-dimensional lattice

DOI10.1007/S10688-008-0026-2MaRDI QIDQ1002816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. A. Bykovskiĭ, Alexey Ustinov

Publication date 26 February 2009

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10688-008-0026-2

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractioninteger latticeKloosterman sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Metric theory of continued fractions (11K50) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Review text

Consider the statistics of the free path length until the first hit of the \(h\)-neighborhood (a disk of radius \(h\)) of a nonzero integer for a particle issuing from the origin. In this paper the authors study the questions on the asymptotic behavior of the statistics while \(h \rightarrow 0\) improving and generalizing related results by F. P. Boca, R. N. Gologan, and A. Zaharescu. In particular they obtain the following: the limit distribution function for the free path length and for the sighting parameter (the distance from the trajectory to the integer point in question) does not depend on the particle escape direction (the property of isotropy).

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