The periodic Lorentz gas in the Boltzmann-Grad limit: asymptotic estimates

DOI10.1007/S00039-011-0116-9zbMATH Open1242.82036arXiv1008.3811OpenAlexW2024010984MaRDI QIDQ719680FDOQ719680

Authors: Jens Marklof, Andreas Strömbergsson 

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The dynamics of a point particle in a periodic array of spherical scatterers converges, in the limit of small scatterer size, to a random flight process, whose paths are piecewise linear curves generated by a Markov process with memory two. The corresponding transport equation is distinctly different from the linear Boltzmann equation observed in the case of a random configuration of scatterers. In the present paper we provide asymptotic estimates for the transition probabilities of this Markov process. Our results in particular sharpen previous upper and lower bounds on the distribution of free path lengths obtained by Bourgain, Golse and Wennberg.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3811

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

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