In a flat 2-torus with a disk of diameter $r$ removed, let $Φ_r(t)$ be the distribution of free-path lengths (the probability that a segment of length larger than $t$ with uniformly distributed origin and direction does not meet the disk).
We prove that $Φ_r(t/r)$ behaves like $\frac{2}{π^2 t}$ for each $t>2$ and in the limit as $r\to 0^+$, in some appropriate sense.
We then discuss the implications of this result in the context of kinetic theory.
We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions of the of the Lorentz force equation, which models the motion of a charged particle under the action of an electromagnetic fields. The basic assumptions cover relevant models with singularities like Coulomb-like electric potentials or the magnetic dipole.
This paper is devoted to the study of the stochastic properties of dynamical systems preserving an infinite measure. More precisely we prove central limit theorems for Birkhoff sums of observables of $\mathbb{Z}^2$-extensions of dynamical systems (satisfying some nice spectral properties). The motivation of our paper is the $\mathbb{Z}^2$-periodic Lorentz process for which we establish a functional central limit theorem for Hölder continuous observables (in discrete time as well as in continuous time).
Countable periodic solutions of the Lorentz force equation under a time-dependent current
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Reliability Assurance Center（中国科学院可靠性保障中心）
We consider a physical Ehrenfests' Wind-Tree model where a moving particle is a hard ball rather than (mathematical) point particle. We demonstrate that a physical periodic Wind-Tree model is dynamically richer than a physical or mathematical periodic Lorentz gas. Namely, the physical Wind-Tree model may have diffusive behavior as the Lorentz gas does, but it has more superdiffusive regimes than the Lorentz gas. The new superdiffusive regime where the diffusion coefficient D(t)~(ln t)^2 of dynamics seems to be never observed before in any model.
In this paper, we show how the Gordin martingale approximation method fits into the anisotropic Banach space framework. In particular, for the time-one map of a finite horizon planar periodic Lorentz gas, we prove that Holder observables satisfy statistical limit laws such as the central limit theorem and associated invariance principles.
We prove limit laws for infinite horizon planar periodic Lorentz gases when, as time $n$ tends to infinity, the scatterer size $ρ$ may also tend to zero simultaneously at a sufficiently slow pace. In particular we obtain a non-standard Central Limit Theorem as well as a Local Limit Theorem for the displacement function. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first results on an intermediate case between the two well-studied regimes with superdiffusive $\sqrt{n\log n}$ scaling (i) for fixed infinite horizon configurations -- letting first $n\to \infty$ and then $ρ\to 0$ -- studied e.g.~by …
