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A deterministic displacement theorem for Poisson processes

Author(s): Oliver Knill
Journal: Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1997), 110-113.
MSC (1991): Primary 58F05, 82C22, 60G55; Secondary 70H05, 60K35, 60J60
Posted: October 28, 1997
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Abstract: We announce a deterministic analog of Bartlett's displacement theorem. The result is that a Poisson property is stable with respect to deterministic Hamiltonian displacements. While the random point configurations move according to an $n$-body evolution, the mean measure $P$ satisfies a nonlinear Vlasov type equation $\dot{P} + y \cdot \nabla _x P - \nabla _y \cdot E(P) = 0$. Combined with Bartlett's theorem, the result generalizes to interacting Brownian particles, where the mean measure satisfies a McKean-Vlasov type diffusion equation $\dot{P} + y \cdot \nabla _x P-\nabla _y \cdot E(P)- c \Delta P=0$.


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Additional Information:

Oliver Knill
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Email: knill@math.utexas.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S1079-6762-97-00033-4
PII: S 1079-6762(97)00033-4
Keywords: Hamiltonian dynamics, Vlasov dynamics, Poisson point process
Received by editor(s): July 28, 1997
Posted: October 28, 1997
Communicated by: Mark Freidlin
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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