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Number rigidity in superhomogeneous random point fields

Probability 2016-11-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions for the number rigidity of a translation invariant or periodic point process on Rd\mathbb{R}^d, where d=1,2d=1,2. That is, the probability distribution of the number of particles in a bounded domain ΛRd\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^d, conditional on the configuration on Λ\Lambda^\complement, is concentrated on a single integer NΛN_\Lambda. These conditions are : (a) the variance of the number of particles in a bounded domain ORd\mathcal{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^d grows slower than the volume of O\mathcal{O} (a.k.a. superhomogeneous point processes), when ORd\mathcal{O} \uparrow \mathbb{R}^d (in a self-similar manner), and (b) the truncated pair correlation function is bounded by C1[xy+1]2C_1[|x-y|+1]^{-2} in d=1d=1 and by C2[xy+1](4+ϵ)C_2[|x-y|+1]^{-(4+\epsilon)} in d=2d=2. These conditions are satisfied by all known processes with number rigidity ([GP],[G],[PS],[AM],[Bu],[BuDQ], [BBNY], and many more) in d=1,2d=1,2. We also observe, in the light of the results of [PS], that no such criteria exist in d>2d>2.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04216,
  title  = {Number rigidity in superhomogeneous random point fields},
  author = {Subhro Ghosh and Joel Lebowitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04216},
  year   = {2016}
}
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