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We prove the vertex-reinforced jump process (VRJP) is recurrent in two dimensions for any translation invariant finite range initial rates. Our proof has two main ingredients. The first is a direct connection between the VRJP and sigma models whose target space is a hyperbolic space $mathbb{H}^n$ or its supersymmetric counterpart $mathbb{H}^{2|2}$. These results are analogues of well-known relations between the Gaussian free field and the local times of simple random walk. The second ingredient is a Mermin--Wagner theorem for these sigma models. This result is of intrinsic interest for the sigma models and also implies our main theorem on the VRJP. Surprisingly, our Mermin--Wagner theorem applies even though the symmetry groups of $mathbb{H}^n$ and $mathbb{H}^{2|2}$ are non-amenable.
In this paper, we provide new proofs of the existence and the condensation of Bethe roots for the Bethe Ansatz equation associated with the six-vertex model with periodic boundary conditions and an arbitrary density of up arrows (per line) in the regime $Delta<1$. As an application, we provide a short, fully rigorous computation of the free energy of the six-vertex model on the torus, as well as an asymptotic expansion of the six-vertex partition functions when the density of up arrows approaches $1/2$. This latter result is at the base of a number of recent results, in particular the rigorous proof of continuity/discontinuity of the phase transition of the random-cluster model, the localization/delocalization behaviour of the six-vertex height function when $a=b=1$ and $cge1$, and the rotational invariance of the six-vertex model and the Fortuin-Kasteleyn percolation.
By analogy with complex numbers, a system of hyperbolic numbers can be introduced in the same way: z=x+h*y with h*h=1 and x,y real numbers. As complex numbers are linked to the Euclidean geometry, so this system of numbers is linked to the pseudo-Euclidean plane geometry (space-time geometry). In this paper we will show how this system of numbers allows, by means of a Cartesian representation, an operative definition of hyperbolic functions using the invariance respect to special relativity Lorentz group. From this definition, by using elementary mathematics and an Euclidean approach, it is straightforward to formalize the pseudo-Euclidean trigonometry in the Cartesian plane with the same coherence as the Euclidean trigonometry.
An extension of the finite and infinite Lie groups properties of complex numbers and functions of complex variable is proposed. This extension is performed exploiting hypercomplex number systems that follow the elementary algebra rules. In particular the functions of such systems satisfy a set of partial differential equations that defines an infinite Lie group. Emphasis is put on the functional transformations of a particular two-dimensional hypercomplex number system, capable of maintaining the wave equation as invariant and then the speed of light invariant too. These functional transformations describe accelerated frames and can be considered as a generalization of two dimensional Lorentz group of special relativity. As a first application the relativistic hyperbolic motion is obtained.
We consider the $n$-component $|varphi|^4$ lattice spin model ($n ge 1$) and the weakly self-avoiding walk ($n=0$) on $mathbb{Z}^d$, in dimensions $d=1,2,3$. We study long-range models based on the fractional Laplacian, with spin-spin interactions or walk step probabilities decaying with distance $r$ as $r^{-(d+alpha)}$ with $alpha in (0,2)$. The upper critical dimension is $d_c=2alpha$. For $epsilon >0$, and $alpha = frac 12 (d+epsilon)$, the dimension $d=d_c-epsilon$ is below the upper critical dimension. For small $epsilon$, weak coupling, and all integers $n ge 0$, we prove that the two-point function at the critical point decays with distance as $r^{-(d-alpha)}$. This sticking of the critical exponent at its mean-field value was first predicted in the physics literature in 1972. Our proof is based on a rigorous renormalisation group method. The treatment of observables differs from that used in recent work on the nearest-neighbour 4-dimensional case, via our use of a cluster expansion.
Consider the long-range models on $mathbb{Z}^d$ of random walk, self-avoiding walk, percolation and the Ising model, whose translation-invariant 1-step distribution/coupling coefficient decays as $|x|^{-d-alpha}$ for some $alpha>0$. In the previous work (Ann. Probab., 43, 639--681, 2015), we have shown in a unified fashion for all $alpha e2$ that, assuming a bound on the derivative of the $n$-step distribution (the compound-zeta distribution satisfies this assumed bound), the critical two-point function $G_{p_c}(x)$ decays as $|x|^{alphawedge2-d}$ above the upper-critical dimension $d_cequiv(alphawedge2)m$, where $m=2$ for self-avoiding walk and the Ising model and $m=3$ for percolation. In this paper, we show in a much simpler way, without assuming a bound on the derivative of the $n$-step distribution, that $G_{p_c}(x)$ for the marginal case $alpha=2$ decays as $|x|^{2-d}/log|x|$ whenever $dge d_c$ (with a large spread-out parameter $L$). This solves the conjecture in the previous work, extended all the way down to $d=d_c$, and confirms a part of predictions in physics (Brezin, Parisi, Ricci-Tersenghi, J. Stat. Phys., 157, 855--868, 2014). The proof is based on the lace expansion and new convolution bounds on power functions with log corrections.