Abstract
We consider a particle moving through a medium under a constant external field. The medium consists of immobile spherical obstacles of equal radii randomly distributed in ℝ3. When the particle collides with an obstacle, it reflects inelastically, with restitution coefficient α , (0, 1). We study the asymptotics of X(t), the position of the particle at time t, as t → ∞. The main result is a functional limit theorem for X(t). Its proof is based on the functional CLT for Markov chains. Bibliography: 10 titles.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 6520-6534 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of Mathematical Sciences |
Volume | 139 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics