Limit laws and recurrence for the planar lorentz process with infinite horizon

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-80

  Szász, Domokos ^a   Varjú, Tamás ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Corridors; Ergodicity; Infinite horizon; Local limit law; Lorentz process; Non normal domain of attraction of the Gaussian law; Periodic configuration of scatterers; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548648549     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-007-9367-0     Document Type: Article

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