Anomalous energy transport in the FPU‐β chain

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Abstract We consider the energy current correlation function for the FPU‐β lattice. For small nonlinearity one can rely on kinetic theory. The issue reduces then to a spectral analysis of the linearized collision operator. We prove thereby that, on the basis of kinetic theory, the energy current correlations decay in time as t −3/5 . It follows that the thermal conductivity is anomalous, increasing as N 2/5 with the system size N . © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.