From a Kinetic Equation to a Diffusion under an Anomalous Scaling
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Abstract. A linear Boltzmann equation is interpreted as the forward equation for the probability density of a Markov process (K(t), i(t), Y (t)) on (T × {1, 2} × R), where T is the twodimensional torus. Here (K(t), i(t)) is an autonomous reversible jump process, with waiting times between two jumps with finite expectation value but infinite variance. Y (t) is an additive functional of K, defined as ∫ t
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