Dettmann's truncated-correlation conjecture for periodic Lorentz processes

Let L\mathcal L be a lattice defining a periodic Lorentz process with phase space MM, invariant measure μ\mu, free-flight time τ\tau, and flow Φt\Phi_t. Let f,g:MRf,g:M\to\mathbb R be H"older functions with zero mean with respect to μ\mu. Let F(t)F(t) denote the free-path tail probability. Dettmann's truncated-correlation conjecture. As tt\to\infty,

{xMτ(x)<t}f(x)g(Φt(x))dμ=o(F(t)).\int_{\{x\in M\mid\tau(x)<t\}}f(x)g(\Phi_t(x))\,d\mu=o(F(t)).

This dynamical conjecture asserts that correlations truncated to trajectories with free-flight time below tt are negligible compared with the free-path tail. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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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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