Dettmann's truncated-correlation conjecture for periodic Lorentz processes

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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:M→Rf,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 t→∞t\to\infty,

∫{x∈M∣τ(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.

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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