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On a Two-Temperature Problem for Wave Equation

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP Probability

Abstract

Consider the wave equation with constant or variable coefficients in R3\R^3. The initial datum is a random function with a finite mean density of energy that also satisfies a Rosenblatt- or Ibragimov-Linnik-type mixing condition. The random function converges to different space-homogeneous processes as x3±x_3\to\pm\infty, with the distributions μ±\mu_\pm. We study the distribution μt\mu_t of the random solution at a time tRt\in\R. The main result is the convergence of μt\mu_t to a Gaussian translation-invariant measure as tt\to\infty that means central limit theorem for the wave equation. The proof is based on the Bernstein `room-corridor' argument. The application to the case of the Gibbs measures μ±=g±\mu_\pm=g_\pm with two different temperatures T±T_{\pm} is given. Limiting mean energy current density formally is (0,0,T+T)-\infty\cdot (0,0,T_+ -T_-) for the Gibbs measures, and it is finite and equals to C(0,0,T+T)-C(0,0,T_+ -T_-) with C>0C>0 for the convolution with a nontrivial test function.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0508044,
  title  = {On a Two-Temperature Problem for Wave Equation},
  author = {T. V. Dudnikova and A. I. Komech and H. Spohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0508044},
  year   = {2007}
}

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