Long-time correlations for a hard-sphere gas at equilibrium
Analysis of PDEs
2020-12-08 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Probability
Abstract
It has been known since Lanford [19] that the dynamics of a hard sphere gas is described in the low density limit by the Boltzmann equation, at least for short times. The classical strategy of proof fails for longer times, even close to equilibrium. In this paper, we introduce a duality method coupled with a pruning argument to prove that the covariance of the fluctuations around equilibrium is governed by the linearized Boltzmann equation globally in time (including in diffusive regimes). This method is much more robust and simple than the one devised in [4] which was specific to the 2D case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.03813,
title = {Long-time correlations for a hard-sphere gas at equilibrium},
author = {Thierry Bodineau and Isabelle Gallagher and Laure Saint-Raymond and Sergio Simonella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03813},
year = {2020}
}