Giovanni Gallavotti, Fabio Perroni
An experimental test of the local fluctuation theorem in chains of weakly interacting Anosov systems
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ABSTRACT.  An experimental test of a large fluctuation theorem is performed on a 
chain of coupled ``cat maps''. Our interest is focused on the behavior 
of a subsystem of this chain. A local entropy creation rate is 
defined and we show that the local fluctuation theorem derived in 
[G1] is experimentally observable already for small subsystems.