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Recurrence properties of Lorentz lattice gas cellular automata

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Recurrence properties of a point particle moving on a regular lattice randomly occupied with scatterers are studied for strictly deterministic, nondeterministic, and purely random scattering rules.

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On leave from Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences, 117218 Moscow, USSR

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Bunimovich, L.A., Troubetzkoy, S.E. Recurrence properties of Lorentz lattice gas cellular automata. J Stat Phys 67, 289–302 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049035

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