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Diffusivity of the Lorentz mirror walk in high dimensions

Probability 2025-07-03 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the Lorentz mirror walk in dimension d2d\geq 2, mirrors are randomly placed on the vertices of Zd\mathbb{Z}^d at density p[0,1]p\in[0,1]. A light ray is then shot from the origin and deflected through the various mirrors in space. The object of study is the random trajectory obtained in this way, and it is of upmost interest to determine whether these trajectories are localized (finite) or delocalized (infinite). A folklore conjecture states that for d=2d=2 these trajectories are finite for any density p>0p>0, while in dimensions d3d\geq 3 and for p>0p>0 small enough some trajectories are infinite. In this paper we prove that for all dimensions d4d\geq 4 and any small density pp, the trajectories behave diffusively at all polynomial time scales tpMt\approx p^{-M} with M>1M>1, and in particular, they do not close by this time.

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@article{arxiv.2505.01341,
  title  = {Diffusivity of the Lorentz mirror walk in high dimensions},
  author = {Dor Elboim and Antoine Gloria and Felipe Hernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01341},
  year   = {2025}
}
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