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An averaging theorem for FPU in the thermodynamic limit

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-16 v1 math.MP

Abstract

Consider an FPU chain composed of N1N\gg 1 particles, and endow the phase space with the Gibbs measure corresponding to a small temperature β1\beta^{-1}. Given a fixed K<NK<N, we construct KK packets of normal modes whose energies are adiabatic invariants (i.e., are approximately constant for times of order β1a\beta^{1-a}, a>0a>0) for initial data in a set of large measure. Furthermore, the time autocorrelation function of the energy of each packet does not decay significantly for times of order β\beta. The restrictions on the shape of the packets are very mild. All estimates are uniform in the number NN of particles and thus hold in the thermodynamic limit NN\to\infty, β>0\beta>0.

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@article{arxiv.1307.7017,
  title  = {An averaging theorem for FPU in the thermodynamic limit},
  author = {Alberto Maiocchi and Dario Bambusi and Andrea Carati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7017},
  year   = {2015}
}