The role of the central limit theorem in discovering sharp rates of convergence to equilibrium for the solution of the Kac equation

DOI10.1214/09-AAP623zbMATH Open1195.60033arXiv1009.3406MaRDI QIDQ968772FDOQ968772

Eugenio Regazzini, Emanuele Dolera

Publication date: 6 May 2010

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Dolera, Gabetta and Regazzini [Ann. Appl. Probab. 19 (2009) 186-201] it is proved that the total variation distance between the solution $f(cdot,t)$ of Kac's equation and the Gaussian density $(0,sigm{a}^2)$ has an upper bound which goes to zero with an exponential rate equal to -1/4 as $to+infty$. In the present paper, we determine a lower bound which decreases exponentially to zero with this same rate, provided that a suitable symmetrized form of $f_0$ has nonzero fourth cumulant $kapp{a}_4$. Moreover, we show that upper bounds like $$ are valid for some $h{o}_{delta}$ vanishing at infinity when $in{t}_{mathbbR}|v{|}^{4+delta}{f}_0(v),dv<+infty$ for some $delta$ in $[0,2[$ and $kapp{a}_4=0$. Generalizations of this statement are presented, together with some remarks about non-Gaussian initial conditions which yield the insuperable barrier of -1 for the rate of convergence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3406

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zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremtotal variation distancecumulantsBerry-Esseen inequalitieskurtosis coefficientWild's sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40)

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