Fractional diffusion as the limit of a short range potential Rayleigh gas

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Main Authors: Matthies, Karsten, Syntaka, Theodora
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author Matthies, Karsten
Syntaka, Theodora
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Syntaka, Theodora
contents The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space $\mathbb{R}^3$ according to a Poisson process with intensity $N$ and in velocity according to some fat-tailed distribution. As an intermediate step a linear Boltzmann equation is obtained in the Boltzmann-Grad limit as $\varepsilon$ tends to zero and $N$ tends to infinity with $N \varepsilon^2 =c$. The convergence of the empiric particle dynamics to the Boltzmann-type dynamics is shown using semigroup methods to describe probability measures on collision trees associated to physical trajectories in the case of a Rayleigh gas. The fractional diffusion equation is a hydrodynamic limit for times $t \in [0,T]$, where $T$ and inverse mean free path $c$ can both be chosen as some negative rational power $\varepsilon^{-k}$.
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spellingShingle Fractional diffusion as the limit of a short range potential Rayleigh gas
Matthies, Karsten
Syntaka, Theodora
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Probability
The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space $\mathbb{R}^3$ according to a Poisson process with intensity $N$ and in velocity according to some fat-tailed distribution. As an intermediate step a linear Boltzmann equation is obtained in the Boltzmann-Grad limit as $\varepsilon$ tends to zero and $N$ tends to infinity with $N \varepsilon^2 =c$. The convergence of the empiric particle dynamics to the Boltzmann-type dynamics is shown using semigroup methods to describe probability measures on collision trees associated to physical trajectories in the case of a Rayleigh gas. The fractional diffusion equation is a hydrodynamic limit for times $t \in [0,T]$, where $T$ and inverse mean free path $c$ can both be chosen as some negative rational power $\varepsilon^{-k}$.
title Fractional diffusion as the limit of a short range potential Rayleigh gas
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19025