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Gibbs measures over permutations of point processes with low density

Probability 2019-04-09 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study a model of spatial random permutations over a discrete set of points. Formally, a permutation σ\sigma is sampled proportionally to the weight exp{αxV(σ(x)x)},\exp\{-\alpha \sum_x V(\sigma(x)-x)\}, where α>0\alpha>0 is the temperature and VV is a non-negative and continuous potential. The most relevant case for physics is when V(x)=x2V(x)=\|x\|^2, since it is related to Bose-Einstein condensation through a representation introduced by Feynman in 1953. In the context of statistical mechanics, the weights define a probability when the set of points is finite, but the construction associated to an infinite set is not trivial and may fail without appropriate hypotheses. The first problem is to establish conditions for the existence of such a measure at infinite volume when the set of points is infinite. Once existence is derived, we are interested in establishing its uniqueness and the cycle structure of a typical permutation. We here consider the large temperature regime when the set of points is a Poisson point process in Zd\mathbb{Z}^d with intensity ρ(0,1/2)\rho \in(0,1/2), and the potential verifies some regularity conditions. In particular, we prove that if α\alpha is large enough, for almost every realization of the point process, there exists a unique Gibbs measure that concentrates on finite cycle permutations. We then extend these results to the continuous setting, when the set of points is given by a Poisson point process in Rd\mathbb{R}^d with low enough intensity.

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@article{arxiv.1904.03952,
  title  = {Gibbs measures over permutations of point processes with low density},
  author = {Inés Armendáriz and Pablo A. Ferrari and Nicolás Frevenza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03952},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

25 pages, Key words: Gibbs measures, permutations, finite cycles, Poisson point process

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