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SYK-like tensor quantum mechanics with $\mathrm{Sp}(N)$ symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-28 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a family of tensor quantum-mechanical models based on irreducible rank-33 representations of Sp(N)\mathrm{Sp}(N). In contrast to irreducible tensor models with O(N)\mathrm{O}(N) symmetry, the fermionic tetrahedral interaction does not vanish and can therefore support a melonic large NN limit. The strongly-coupled regime has a very analogous structure as in the complex SYK model or in U(N)×O(N)×U(N)\mathrm{U}(N)\times\mathrm{O}(N)\times\mathrm{U}(N) tensor quantum mechanics, the main difference being that the states are now singlets under Sp(N)\mathrm{Sp}(N). We introduce character formulas that enumerate such singlets as a function of NN, and compute their first values. We conclude with an explicit numerical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in two simple examples: the symmetric model at N=1N=1, and the antisymmetric traceless model at N=3N=3.

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@article{arxiv.1809.07753,
  title  = {SYK-like tensor quantum mechanics with $\mathrm{Sp}(N)$ symmetry},
  author = {Sylvain Carrozza and Victor Pozsgay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07753},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

24 pages, 5 figures, v2: minor improvements and references added, v3: matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T04:13:04.250Z