Rigorous Results for the Periodic Oscillation of an Adiabatic Piston
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Publication:6205220
arXiv0704.0698MaRDI QIDQ6205220FDOQ6205220
Authors: Paul Wright 
Publication date: 5 April 2007
Abstract: We study a heavy piston of mass that moves in one dimension. The piston separates two gas chambers, each of which contains finitely many ideal, unit mass gas particles moving in dimensions, where . Using averaging techniques, we prove that the actual motions of the piston converge in probability to the predicted averaged behavior on the time scale when tends to infinity while the total energy of the system is bounded and the number of gas particles is fixed. Neishtadt and Sinai previously pointed out that an averaging theorem due to Anosov should extend to this situation. When , the gas particles move in just one dimension, and we prove that the rate of convergence of the actual motions of the piston to its averaged behavior is on the time scale . The convergence is uniform over all initial conditions in a compact set. We also investigate the piston system when the particle interactions have been smoothed. The convergence to the averaged behavior again takes place uniformly, both over initial conditions and over the amount of smoothing. In addition, we prove generalizations of our results to pistons separating gas chambers. We also provide a general discussion of averaging theory and the proofs of a number of previously known averaging results. In particular, we include a new proof of Anosov's averaging theorem for smooth systems that is primarily due to Dolgopyat.
Averaging method for ordinary differential equations (34C29) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)
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