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An averaging theorem for FPU in the thermodynamic limit

Authors :
Maiocchi, Alberto
Bambusi, Dario
Carati, Andrea
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

Consider an FPU chain composed of $N\gg 1$ particles, and endow the phase space with the Gibbs measure corresponding to a small temperature $\beta^{-1}$. Given a fixed $K<N$, we construct $K$ packets of normal modes whose energies are adiabatic invariants (i.e., are approximately constant for times of order $\beta^{1-a}$, $a>0$) for initial data in a set of large measure. Furthermore, the time autocorrelation function of the energy of each packet does not decay significantly for times of order $\beta$. The restrictions on the shape of the packets are very mild. All estimates are uniform in the number $N$ of particles and thus hold in the thermodynamic limit $N\to\infty$, $\beta>0$.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematical Physics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1307.7017
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-014-0958-2