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Macroscopic Feynman Cycles and Poisson--Kingman Universality in Bose Condensation

Probability 2026-07-05 v1 Mathematical Physics

Abstract

We prove a canonical limit theorem for the macroscopic Feynman cycles of finite-volume ideal Bose gases. Cycles carry marks in a general Polish space M\mathsf{M}, encoding spatial, geometric, spectral, or internal data. After removing a deterministic background density ρbg\rho_{\mathrm{bg}}, the marked macroscopic cycle process converges in the canonical ensemble to a marked Poisson--Kingman bridge of total mass ρρbg\rho - \rho_{\mathrm{bg}}. The bridge is constructed from a marked Poisson point process with intensity x1ηx(dm)dxx^{-1}\eta_x(dm)\,dx, conditioned on total mass ρρbg\rho - \rho_{\mathrm{bg}}, where the kernel xηxx \mapsto \eta_x and its total-mass profile ϕ(x)=ηx(M)\phi(x) = \eta_x(\mathsf{M}) are determined by the low-energy spectral data visible on the scale jVLj \sim V_L. When ϕ\phi is constant, the bridge reduces to a Gamma bridge and the ranked cycle lengths follow the Poisson--Dirichlet law. We verify this for the ideal Bose gas in dimension d>2d > 2 under periodic, Dirichlet, and Neumann boundary conditions: in all three cases ϕ1\phi \equiv 1 and the ranked lengths converge to PD(0,1)\mathrm{PD}(0,1), while the mark kernels distinguish the three models through their winding, killed-bridge, and reflected-bridge geometry. When ϕ\phi is not constant, the bridge is no longer Gamma and the ranked lengths are not Poisson--Dirichlet. As a concrete example, a critical double-well potential whose tunnelling splitting satisfies VLΔLγV_L \Delta_L \to \gamma gives ϕγ(x)=1+eβγx\phi_\gamma(x) = 1 + e^{-\beta\gamma x}; more generally, a finite-type visible spectrum with RR components yields ϕ(x)=r=1Rθreβλrx\phi(x) = \sum_{r=1}^{R} \theta_r e^{-\beta\lambda_r x}. These results identify Poisson--Kingman bridges as the canonical universality class for marked macroscopic Bose cycles, with the visible low-energy spectrum selecting the particular bridge.

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@article{arxiv.2607.04264,
  title  = {Macroscopic Feynman Cycles and Poisson--Kingman Universality in Bose Condensation},
  author = {Wen Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04264},
  year   = {2026}
}

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