A functional analytic approach to perturbations of the Lorentz gas

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DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1820-0zbMATH Open1385.37050arXiv1210.1261OpenAlexW3099922623MaRDI QIDQ387634FDOQ387634


Authors: Mark F. Demers, Hongkun Zhang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 23 December 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a functional analytic framework based on the spectrum of the transfer operator to study billiard maps associated with perturbations of the periodic Lorentz gas. We show that recently constructed Banach spaces for the billiard map of the classical Lorentz gas are flexible enough to admit a wide variety of perturbations, including: movements and deformations of scatterers; billiards subject to external forces; nonelastic reflections with kicks and slips at the boundaries of the scatterers; and random perturbations comprised of these and possibly other classes of maps. The spectra and spectral projections of the transfer operators are shown to vary continuously with such perturbations so that the spectral gap enjoyed by the classical billiard persists and important limit theorems follow.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1261




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