The free path in a high velocity random flight process associated to a Lorentz gas in an external field

DOI10.1090/BTRAN/11zbMATH Open1345.60028arXiv1503.02343OpenAlexW2963309244MaRDI QIDQ2809290FDOQ2809290

Alexandru Hening, Douglas Rizzolo, Eric S. Wayman

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the asymptotic behavior of the free path of a variable density random flight model in an external field as the initial velocity of the particle goes to infinity. The random flight models we study arise naturally as the Boltzmann-Grad limit of a random Lorentz gas in the presence of an external field. By analyzing the time duration of the free path, we obtain exact forms for the asymptotic mean and variance of the free path in terms of the external field and the density of scatterers. As a consequence, we obtain a diffusion approximation for the joint process of the particle observed at reflection times and the amount of time spent in free flight.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02343

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationcontinuous-time random walkBoltzmann-Grad limitLorentz gasSkorokhod spacetransport processrandom evolutionpotential densityscattering densityinaccessible boundary pointrandom flight processvelocity limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes (60J60) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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