Central limit theorem for the solution of the Kac equation

DOI10.1214/08-AAP524zbMATH Open1161.82018arXiv0901.2464OpenAlexW3099086419MaRDI QIDQ2378633FDOQ2378633

Authors: Eugenio Regazzini, Ester Gabetta 

Publication date: 13 January 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the solution of the Kac analogue of Boltzmann's equation can be viewed as a probability distribution of a sum of a random number of random variables. This fact allows us to study convergence to equilibrium by means of a few classical statements pertaining to the central limit theorem. In particular, a new proof of the convergence to the Maxwellian distribution is provided, with a rate information both under the sole hypothesis that the initial energy is finite and under the additional condition that the initial distribution has finite moment of order $2+delta$ for some $delta$ in $(0,1]$. Moreover, it is proved that finiteness of initial energy is necessary in order that the solution of Kac's equation can converge weakly. While this statement may seem to be intuitively clear, to our knowledge there is no proof of it as yet.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2464

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zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergencecentral limit theoremGaussian distributionweak convergenceBoltzmann equationKac equationnecessary and sufficient conditionsWild series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

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