On the convergence to statistical equilibrium for harmonic crystals
Abstract
We consider the dynamics of a harmonic crystal in $d$ dimensions with $n$ components, $d,n$ arbitrary, $d,n\ge 1$, and study the distribution $\mu_t$ of the solution at time $t\in\R$. The initial measure $\mu_0$ has a translation-invariant correlation matrix, zero mean, and finite mean energy density. It also satisfies a Rosenblatt- resp. Ibragimov-Linnik type mixing condition. The main result is the convergence of $\mu_t$ to a Gaussian measure as $t\to\infty$. The proof is based on the long time asymptotics of the Green's function and on Bernstein's ``room-corridors'' method.
- Publication:
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Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1571658
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math-ph/0210039
- Bibcode:
- 2003JMP....44.2596D
- Keywords:
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- 63.10.+a;
- 02.30.-f;
- General theory;
- Function theory analysis;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Probability;
- 82D25;
- 82C05;
- 82B05
- E-Print:
- J. Math. Phys. 44 (2003), 2596-2620