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Convergence to $\alpha$-stable L\'evy motion for chaotic billiards with several cusps at flat points

Dynamical Systems 2019-05-21 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider billiards with several possibly non-isometric and asymmetric cusps at flat points; the case of a single symmetric cusp was studied previously in Zhang (2017) and Jung & Zhang (2018). In particular, we show that properly normalized Birkhoff sums of H\"older observables, with respect to the billiard map, converge in Skorokhod's M1M_1-topology to an α\alpha-stable L\'evy motion, where α\alpha depends on the `curvature' of the flattest points and the skewness parameter ξ\xi depends on the values of the observable at those same points. Previously, Jung & Zhang (2018) proved convergence of the one-point marginals to totally skewed α\alpha-stable distributions for a single symmetric cusp. The limits we prove here are stronger, since they are in the functional sense, but also allow for more varied behaviour due to the presence of multiple cusps. In particular, the general limits we obtain allow for any skewness parameter, as opposed to just the totally skewed cases. We also show that convergence in the stronger J1J_1-topology is not possible.

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@article{arxiv.1809.08021,
  title  = {Convergence to $\alpha$-stable L\'evy motion for chaotic billiards with several cusps at flat points},
  author = {Paul Jung and Françoise Pène and Hong-Kun Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08021},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

36 pages, 1 figure. Significant changes in the updated version including a more general model with asymmetric and different-order cusps, a correction to an error in Section 4.4, and updated proofs for the more general model

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