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Stable limit laws for observables on dynamical systems have been
established in two settings: 'good observables' (typically
Hölder) on slowly mixing non-uniformly hyperbolic systems and
'bad observables' (unbounded with fat tails) on fast mixing
dynamical systems. Consider a polynomially mixing billiard \((T, Q,
\mu)\). We use a Poisson point process approach to prove
distributional convergence to a stable law for non-square integrable
observables \(\varphi(x)= d(x,x_0)^{-\frac{2}{\alpha}}, 0< \alpha <
2,\) and \(x_{0} \in Q\). The observable \(\varphi\) has a tail
distribution of index \(\alpha\), i.e. \(\mu(\varphi>t) \sim
t^{-\alpha}\). The billiard systems we consider have a sufficiently
slow mixing rate that Hölder observables satisfy a stable law of
index \(\gamma\), where \(\gamma\) is a mixing parameter. We will
investigate the interplay between the stable law arising from the
'fat tailed' observable and the stable law arising from the slow
mixing dynamics. A key result is to verify a standard mixing
condition, which ensures that large values of the observable dominate
the time-series, in the range \(1<\alpha<2\).
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