Abstract
We consider the energy current correlation function for the FPU-β lattice. For small nonlinearity one can rely on kinetic theory. The issue reduces then to a spectral analysis of the linearized collision operator. We prove thereby that, on the basis of kinetic theory, the energy current correlations decay in time as t-3/5. It follows that the thermal conductivity is anomalous, increasing as N2/5 with the system size N.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1753-1786 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| Journal | Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2008 |