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| author | Duerinckx, Mitia Bihan, Corentin Le |
| author_facet | Duerinckx, Mitia Bihan, Corentin Le |
| contents | We study the long-time dynamics of a tagged particle coupled to a background of $N$ other particles, all interacting through long-range pairwise forces in the mean-field scaling, with the background initially at thermal equilibrium. Starting from the $N$-particle BBGKY hierarchy, we introduce a simplified (truncated) hierarchical model and show, in sufficiently large spatial dimension, that the tagged-particle density converges, on timescales $t\sim N$, to the solution of a linear Fokker-Planck equation, viewed as the linearization of the Landau equation. This provides, in a simplified setting, a rigorous derivation of the slow thermalization predicted by Lenard-Balescu theory. Our approach relies on a rigorous Dyson expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams and on a novel renormalization scheme that removes leading recollisions. The main technical challenge is to control the effect of phase-space filamentation within the diagrams, which we achieve by combining phase mixing and hypoelliptic regularity. Although restricted to a simplified model, our analysis offers new insight into Lenard-Balescu thermalization: notably, the renormalization appears to transform free propagators into hypoelliptic ones, providing a key mechanism that compensates for filamentation. |
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| spellingShingle | Lenard-Balescu thermalization: rigorous derivation from a toy model Duerinckx, Mitia Bihan, Corentin Le Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs We study the long-time dynamics of a tagged particle coupled to a background of $N$ other particles, all interacting through long-range pairwise forces in the mean-field scaling, with the background initially at thermal equilibrium. Starting from the $N$-particle BBGKY hierarchy, we introduce a simplified (truncated) hierarchical model and show, in sufficiently large spatial dimension, that the tagged-particle density converges, on timescales $t\sim N$, to the solution of a linear Fokker-Planck equation, viewed as the linearization of the Landau equation. This provides, in a simplified setting, a rigorous derivation of the slow thermalization predicted by Lenard-Balescu theory. Our approach relies on a rigorous Dyson expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams and on a novel renormalization scheme that removes leading recollisions. The main technical challenge is to control the effect of phase-space filamentation within the diagrams, which we achieve by combining phase mixing and hypoelliptic regularity. Although restricted to a simplified model, our analysis offers new insight into Lenard-Balescu thermalization: notably, the renormalization appears to transform free propagators into hypoelliptic ones, providing a key mechanism that compensates for filamentation. |
| title | Lenard-Balescu thermalization: rigorous derivation from a toy model |
| topic | Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10778 |