The stochastic acceleration problem in two dimensions

DOI10.1007/BF02773954MaRDI QIDQ2472732zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tomasz Komorowski, Lenya Ryzhik

Publication date 22 February 2008

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0505083

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motiondiffusive limitmomentum process.random Hamiltonian field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Probabilistic potential theory (60J45) Diffusion processes (60J60)

Abstract: We consider the motion of a particle in a two-dimensional spatially homogeneous mixing potential and show that its momentum converges to the Brownian motion on a circle. This complements the limit theorem of Kesten and Papanicolaou cite{KP} proved in dimensions $dge3$.

Review text

\textit{H. Kesten} and \textit{G. C. Papanicolaou} [Commun. Math. Phys. 78, 19--63 (1980; Zbl 0454.60007)] obtained a diffiusive limit theorem on random potentials in dimension \(\geq 3\). This result says that the momentum of a particle moving in a weakly random Hamiltonian field approaches in the long time limit the Brownian motion on the level set of the Hamiltonian in the momentum space. The position of the particle follows the trajectory generated by this momentum process. In the paper under review, the authors obtain, under the same assumptions as Kesten and Papanicolaou, an analogous result in the two-dimensional case. They prove that the momentum of a particle moving in a two-dimensional spatially homogeneous mixing potential converges to the Brownian motion on a cicle. Apparently, this result in dimension \(2\) cannot be obtained by the methods used by Kesten and Papanicolaou in dimension \(\geq 3\).

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