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We discuss a conjecture of Alley and Alder predicting a relation between the four-point and the two-point velocity autocorrelation functions for fluids and Lorentz models at sufficiently long times. If the conjecture is correct a modified Burnett coefficient can be defined, which has a finite value, contrary to the ordinary Burnett coefficient, which is divergent. The conjecture is tested for four classes of models with different methods: for three-dimensional fluids mode-coupling theory yields a negative result. The conjecture is confirmed for thed-dimensional deterministic Lorentz gas (d ⩾ 2) and for a class ofd-dimensional stochastic Lorentz models (d ⩾ 1) by low-density kinetic theory, as well as by rigorous results, available for one dimension. For yet another class of one-dimensional stochastic Lorentz models, which are exactly solvable in one dimension, the result is negative again. All four classes of models show long-time tails in the velocity autocorrelation function and have a finite diffusion coefficient.
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Ernst, M.H., van Beijeren, H. On a conjecture of Alley and Alder for fluids and Lorentz models. J Stat Phys 26, 1–24 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01106782
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