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Residual Diffusivity for Expanding Bernoulli Maps

Probability 2025-12-19 v2

Abstract

Consider a discrete time Markov process XϵX^\epsilon on Rd\mathbf R^d that makes a deterministic jump based on its current location, and then takes a small Gaussian step of variance ϵ2\epsilon^2. We study the behavior of the asymptotic variance as ϵ0\epsilon \to 0. In some situations (for instance if there were no jumps), then the asymptotic variance vanishes as ϵ0\epsilon \to 0. When the jumps are "chaotic", however, the asymptotic variance may be bounded from above and bounded away from 00, as ϵ0\epsilon \to 0. This phenomenon is known as residual diffusivity, and we prove this occurs when the jumps are determined by certain expanding Bernoulli maps.

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@article{arxiv.2505.19378,
  title  = {Residual Diffusivity for Expanding Bernoulli Maps},
  author = {William Cooperman and Gautam Iyer and James Nolen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19378},
  year   = {2025}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures

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