Supercritical phase transition on the Toeplitz algebra of $\mathbb N^\times \ltimes \mathbb Z$
Operator Algebras
2025-10-09 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
We study the high-temperature equilibrium for the C*-algebra recently considered by an Huef, Laca and Raeburn. We show that the simplex of KMS states at each inverse temperature in the critical interval is a Bauer simplex whose space of extreme points is homeomorphic to . This is in contrast to the uniqueness of equilibrium at high temperature observed in previously considered systems arising from number theory. We also show that quotients of our system exhibit spontaneous symmetry-breaking by finite cyclotomic Galois groups and establish their connection to the Bost-Connes phase transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.03033,
title = {Supercritical phase transition on the Toeplitz algebra of $\mathbb N^\times \ltimes \mathbb Z$},
author = {Marcelo Laca and Tyler Schulz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03033},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Introduction has been improved for motivation and focus; old appendix B is now included as Section 6; section numbers have changed after that