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Monday 12 Feb 2018: Dynamics Seminar: Beyond the limit of infinite time-scale separation: Edgeworth expansions and homogenisation
Jeroen Wouters - Reading
H103 14:30-15:30
A classical approach to the model reduction is to assume a large time scale separation between slow and fast processes. In the limit of infinite time scale separation, this assumption leads to a reduction of the full system to a set of slow variable that are impacted by Gaussian white noise that parametrizes the fast processes. This type of reduction method is known as homogenization.
Homogenization is an extension of the central limit theorem (C LT) to dynamical systems, in that one obtains a weak convergence to a stochastic process with Gaussian noise. A number of theorems are known that give more details on how this convergence unfolds in the case of the CLT, describing the error made by taking the Gaussian limiting distribution instead of the actual distribution.
We will discuss how such results, in particular the Edgeworth expansion, can be used in the setting of time-scale-separated dynamical systems to develop reduced models that more accurately describe the statistics of slow-fast systems than the limiting homogenized equations. This we are able to do by developing the first few Edgeworth correction terms and matching them by a time-correlated surrogate process that now parametrizes the fast processes instead of the Gaussian white noise.
This is joint work with Georg Gottwald
