Dettmann's incipient-principal-horizon tail conjecture for periodic Lorentz processes

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Let L\mathcal L be a lattice defining a periodic Lorentz process, let dd be the dimension, and let F(t)F(t) be the free-path tail probability. A principal horizon has the highest possible dimension, and a horizon is incipient when its basis has measure zero in the relevant transverse dimension. Dettmann's incipient-principal-horizon conjecture. If the process has an incipient but no actual principal horizon, then, as t→∞t\to\infty,

F(t)≍{\nt−2,d<6,\nt−2log⁡t,d=6,\nt−αd,1<αd<2,d>6.F(t)\asymp\begin{cases}\nt^{-2},&d<6,\nt^{-2}\log t,&d=6,\nt^{-\alpha_d},\quad 1<\alpha_d<2,&d>6. \end{cases}

This geometric conjecture gives dimension-dependent tail asymptotics in the absence of an actual principal horizon. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Peter Nandori, Domokos Szasz and Tamas Varju, “Tail asymptotics of free path lengths for the periodic Lorentz process. On Dettmann's geometric conjectures”, arXiv:1210.2231 (2013).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1103.1225.

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