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The Boltzmann-Grad limit of the periodic Lorentz gas in two space dimensions

Emanuele Caglioti, François Golse

Published 2007-10-03, updated 2007-10-04Version 2

The periodic Lorentz gas is the dynamical system corresponding to the free motion of a point particle in a periodic system of fixed spherical obstacles of radius $r$ centered at the integer points, assuming all collisions of the particle with the obstacles to be elastic. In this Note, we study this motion on time intervals of order $1/r$ and in the limit as $r\to 0^+$, in the case of two space dimensions.

Journal: C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 346 (2008), no. 7-8, 477-482
Categories: math.DS, math-ph, math.MP
Subjects: 82C40, 37A60, 37D50, 11K50
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