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Lorentz gas with small scatterers

Probability 2023-02-09 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove limit laws for infinite horizon planar periodic Lorentz gases when, as time nn tends to infinity, the scatterer size ρ\rho may also tend to zero simultaneously at a sufficiently slow pace. In particular we obtain a non-standard Central Limit Theorem as well as a Local Limit Theorem for the displacement function. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first results on an intermediate case between the two well-studied regimes with superdiffusive nlogn\sqrt{n\log n} scaling (i) for fixed infinite horizon configurations -- letting first nn\to \infty and then ρ0\rho \to 0 -- studied e.g.~by Sz\'asz \& Varj\'u (2007) and (ii) Boltzmann-Grad type situations -- letting first ρ0\rho \to 0 and then nn \to \infty -- studied by Marklof \& T\'oth (2016).

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@article{arxiv.2107.10529,
  title  = {Lorentz gas with small scatterers},
  author = {Péter Bálint and Henk Bruin and Dalia Terhesiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10529},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Version accepted in Prob. Th. and Rel. Fields

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