Aperiodic and linearly repetitive Lorentz gases of finite horizon are not exponentially mixing

Rodrigo Treviño; Agnieszka Zelerowicz

doi:10.3934/dcds.2023057

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2023, Volume 43, Issue 9: 3549-3562. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2023057

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Aperiodic and linearly repetitive Lorentz gases of finite horizon are not exponentially mixing

Rodrigo Treviño^1, , and
Agnieszka Zelerowicz^2,

1.
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
2.
University of California, Riverside

^*Corresponding author: Rodrigo Treviño
^*Corresponding author: Rodrigo Treviño

Received: May 2022

Revised: April 2023

Early access: May 2023

Published: September 2023

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We prove that aperiodic and linearly repetitive Lorentz gases with finite horizon are not mixing with exponential or stretched exponential speed in any dimension for any class of Hölder observables under a technical assumption known to hold in all known examples. We also bound the polynomial speed of mixing for observables in the Hölder space $ H_{\alpha} $ depending on $ \alpha $.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37C83, 37A25, 52C22.

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