Typicality of recurrence for Lorentz gases

DOI10.1017/S0143385706000022MaRDI QIDQ5481539zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Lenci

Publication date 10 August 2006

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410355

zbMATH Keywords

billiard systemcorrelationsPoincaré mapunstable manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

Abstract: It is a safe conjecture that most (not necessarily periodic) two-dimensional Lorentz gases with finite horizon are recurrent. Here we formalize this conjecture by means of a stochastic ensemble of Lorentz gases, in which i.i.d. random scatterers are placed in each cell of a co-compact lattice in the plane. We prove that the typical Lorentz gas, in the sense of Baire, is recurrent, and give results in the direction of showing that recurrence is an almost sure property (including a zero-one law that holds in every dimension). A few toy models illustrate the extent of these results.

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