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    Mixing in an anharmonic potential well

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    We prove phase-space mixing for solutions to Liouville's equation for integrable systems. Under a natural non-harmonicity condition, we obtain weak convergence of the distribution function with rate ⟨time⟩−1\langle \mathrm{time} \rangle^{-1}. In one dimension, we also study the case where this condition fails at a certain energy, showing that mixing still holds but with a slower rate. When the condition holds and functions have higher regularity, the rate can be faster.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure. v2:additional result in Theorem 1.3, typos correcte
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