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On the Time Average of the Autocorrelation Function in Hamiltonian Dynamics

Dynamical Systems 2008-12-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Rigorous lower bound on the time-average of the autocorrelation function of an arbitrary L^1 observable is proven in terms of conserved quantities and ergodic decompositions of the Hamiltonian dynamics. Improvements with respect to the bounds given by Mazur and Suzuki are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0811.4687,
  title  = {On the Time Average of the Autocorrelation Function in Hamiltonian Dynamics},
  author = {Pavle Saksida and Tomaz Prosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4687},
  year   = {2008}
}

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20 pages

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