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Universal fine grained asymptotics of free and weakly coupled Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-09-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a rigorous proof that in any free quantum field theory with a finite group global symmetry G\mathrm{G}, on a compact spatial manifold, at sufficiently high energy, the density of states ρα(E)\rho_\alpha(E) for each irreducible representation α\alpha of G\mathrm{G} obeys a universal formula as conjectured by Harlow and Ooguri. We further prove that this continues to hold in a weakly coupled quantum field theory, given an appropriate scaling of the coupling with temperature. This generalizes similar results that were previously obtained in (1+1)(1+1)-D to higher spacetime dimension. We discuss the role of averaging in the density of states, and we compare and contrast with the case of continuous group G\mathrm{G}, where we prove a universal, albeit different, behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2111.04725,
  title  = {Universal fine grained asymptotics of free and weakly coupled Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {Weiguang Cao and Tom Melia and Sridip Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04725},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, 1 Figure; v2 adds proof on a general manifold, and modifies the proof in Sec 3 to separate out microcanonical and canonical ensemble, 18 pages; v3 is restructured for clarity, 19 pages