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Phase transitions in the decomposition of $SU(N)$ representations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-26 v4 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the multiplicity of irreducible representations in the decomposition of nn fundamentals of SU(N)SU(N) weighted by a power of their dimension in the large nn and large NN double scaling limit. A nontrivial scaling is obtained by keeping n/N2n/N^2 fixed, which plays the role of an order parameter. We find that the system generically undergoes a fourth order phase transition in this parameter, from a dense phase to a dilute phase. The transition is enhanced to third order for the unweighted multiplicity, and disappears altogether when weighting with the first power of the dimension. This corresponds to the infinite temperature partition function of non-Abelian ferromagnets, and the results should be relevant to the thermodynamic limit of such ferromagnets at high temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.2310.16887,
  title  = {Phase transitions in the decomposition of $SU(N)$ representations},
  author = {Alexios P. Polychronakos and Konstantinos Sfetsos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16887},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Version published in NPB, extra references; 35 pages, 6 figures