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 tends to infinity, the scatterer size 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 scaling (i) for fixed infinite horizon configurations -- letting first and then -- studied e.g.~by Sz\'asz \& Varj\'u (2007) and (ii) Boltzmann-Grad type situations -- letting first and then -- 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