Asymptotic behaviour of randomly reflecting billiards in unbounded tubular domains

DOI10.1007/S10955-008-9578-ZzbMATH Open1157.82036arXiv0802.1865OpenAlexW3098937740MaRDI QIDQ960155FDOQ960155

Authors: M. Vachkovskaia, Mikhail V. Menshikov, Andrew R. Wade 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

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

Abstract: We study stochastic billiards in infinite planar domains with curvilinear boundaries: that is, piecewise deterministic motion with randomness introduced via random reflections at the domain boundary. Physical motivation for the process originates with ideal gas models in the Knudsen regime, with particles reflecting off microscopically rough surfaces. We classify the process into recurrent and transient cases. We also give almost-sure results on the long-term behaviour of the location of the particle, including a super-diffusive rate of escape in the transient case. A key step in obtaining our results is to relate our process to an instance of a one-dimensional stochastic process with asymptotically zero drift, for which we prove some new almost-sure bounds of independent interest. We obtain some of these bounds via an application of general semimartingale criteria, also of some independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1865

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zbMATH Keywords

rarefied gas dynamicsKnudsen random walkalmost-sure boundsLamperti problembirth-and-death chainrecurrence/transiencerandom reflectionsstochastic billiards

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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