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Kinetic transport in the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas

Mathematical Physics 2008-05-17 v1 Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

The periodic Lorentz gas describes an ensemble of non-interacting point particles in a periodic array of spherical scatterers. We have recently shown that, in the limit of small scatterer density (Boltzmann-Grad limit), the macroscopic dynamics converges to a stochastic process, whose kinetic transport equation is not the linear Boltzmann equation--in contrast to the Lorentz gas with a disordered scatterer configuration. The present paper focuses on the two-dimensional set-up, and reports an explicit, elementary formula for the collision kernel of the transport equation.

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@article{arxiv.0804.0566,
  title  = {Kinetic transport in the two-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas},
  author = {Jens Marklof and Andreas Strombergsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0566},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures

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