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Energy field of critical Ising model and examples of singular fields in QFT

Probability 2025-11-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to prove singularity of three natural fields in QFT with respect to their natural base measure. The fields we consider are the following ones: (1) The near-critical limit of the 2d2d Ising model (in the β\beta-direction) is locally singular w.r.t the critical scaling limit of 2d2d Ising. (N.B. In the hh-direction it is not locally singular). (2) The 2d2d Hierarchical Sine-Gordon field is singular w.r.t the 2d2d hierarchical Gaussian Free Field for all β[βL2,βBKT)\beta\in[\beta_{L^2}, \beta_{BKT}). (3) The Hierarchical Φ34\Phi^4_3 field is singular w.r.t the 3d3d hierarchical GFF. Item (1) gives the first strong indication that the energy field of critical 2d2d Ising model does not exist as a random Schwarz distribution on the plane. Item (2) has been proved to be singular for the non-hierarchical 2d2d Sine-Gordon sufficiently far from the BKT point in [GM24] while item (3) is proved to be singular for the non-hierarchical 3d3d Φ34\Phi^4_3 field in [BG21, OOT21, HKN24]. We believe our way to detect a singular behaviour at all scales is very much down to earth and may be applicable in all settings where one has a good enough control on the so-called effective potentials.

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@article{arxiv.2502.02554,
  title  = {Energy field of critical Ising model and examples of singular fields in QFT},
  author = {Christophe Garban and Antti Kupiainen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02554},
  year   = {2025}
}

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52 pages. Minor changes. 1 figure