Universal hitting time statistics for integrable flows

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1604-YzbMATH Open1364.37125arXiv1606.04068OpenAlexW3106540279WikidataQ59611823 ScholiaQ59611823MaRDI QIDQ526587FDOQ526587

Andreas Strömbergsson, Carl P. Dettmann, Jens Marklof

Publication date: 15 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The perceived randomness in the time evolution of "chaotic" dynamical systems can be characterized by universal probabilistic limit laws, which do not depend on the fine features of the individual system. One important example is the Poisson law for the times at which a particle with random initial data hits a small set. This was proved in various settings for dynamical systems with strong mixing properties. The key result of the present study is that, despite the absence of mixing, the hitting times of integrable flows also satisfy universal limit laws which are, however, not Poisson. We describe the limit distributions for "generic" integrable flows and a natural class of target sets, and illustrate our findings with two examples: the dynamics in central force fields and ellipse billiards. The convergence of the hitting time process follows from a new equidistribution theorem in the space of lattices, which is of independent interest. Its proof exploits Ratner's measure classification theorem for unipotent flows, and extends earlier work of Elkies and McMullen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04068

zbMATH Keywords

unipotent flowhitting time statisticsintegrable flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Homogeneous flows (37A17)

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