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A PDE construction of the Euclidean $\Phi^4_3$ quantum field theory

Mathematical Physics 2021-01-11 v4 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We present a new construction of the Euclidean Φ4\Phi^4 quantum field theory on R3\mathbb{R}^3 based on PDE arguments. More precisely, we consider an approximation of the stochastic quantization equation on R3\mathbb{R}^3 defined on a periodic lattice of mesh size ε\varepsilon and side length MM. We introduce a new renormalized energy method in weighted spaces and prove tightness of the corresponding Gibbs measures as ε0\varepsilon \rightarrow 0, MM \rightarrow \infty. Every limit point is non-Gaussian and satisfies reflection positivity, translation invariance and stretched exponential integrability. These properties allow to verify the Osterwalder--Schrader axioms for a Euclidean QFT apart from rotation invariance and clustering. Our argument applies to arbitrary positive coupling constant, to multicomponent models with O(N)O(N) symmetry and to some long-range variants. Moreover, we establish an integration by parts formula leading to the hierarchy of Dyson--Schwinger equations for the Euclidean correlation functions. To this end, we identify the renormalized cubic term as a \emph{distribution} on the space of Euclidean fields.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01700,
  title  = {A PDE construction of the Euclidean $\Phi^4_3$ quantum field theory},
  author = {Massimiliano Gubinelli and Martina Hofmanova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01700},
  year   = {2021}
}