Spectral Gaps for Reversible Markov Processes with Chaotic Invariant Measures: The Kac Process with Hard Sphere Collisions in Three Dimensions
Mathematical Physics
2019-11-01 v2 math.MP
Abstract
We develop a method for producing estimates on the spectral gaps of reversible Markov jump processes with chaotic invariant measures, and we apply it to prove the Kac conjecture for hard sphere collision in three dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.1812.03874,
title = {Spectral Gaps for Reversible Markov Processes with Chaotic Invariant Measures: The Kac Process with Hard Sphere Collisions in Three Dimensions},
author = {Eric A. Carlen and Maria C. Carvalho and Michael P. Loss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03874},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Version 2 corrects a number of typos