Effective action and cluster properties of the abelian Higgs model

We continue our program to establish the Higgs mechanism and mass gap for the abelian Higgs model in two and three dimensions. We develop a multiscale cluster expansion for the high frequency modes of the theory, within a framework of iterated renormalization group transformations. The expansions yield decoupling properties needed for a proof of exponential decay of correlations. The result of this analysis is a gauge invariant unit lattice theory with a deep Higgs potential of the shape required to exhibit the Higgs mechanism.Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-8602207 and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AFOSR-86-0229Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants PHY-84-13285 and PHY-85-13554Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant PHY-85-13554     

The Asymptotic Behavior of the Takhtajan-Zograf Metric

We obtain the asymptotic behavior of the Takhtajan-Zograf metric on the Teichmüller space of punctured Riemann surfaces. The first author is partially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research 2005-2007. The second author is partially supported by the research grant R-146-000-106-112 from the National University of Singapore and the Ministry of Education.     

Quark confinement in the two-dimensional lattice Higgs-Villain model

We prove quark confinement in the two-dimensional lattice Higgs-Villain model in the weak coupling region by using a Kirkwood-Salsburg equations for unbounded spins.Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant PHY-77-18762On leave from Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Research partially supported by National Research Council under Grant A4015On leave from Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Napoli, Italy     

Pointwise bounds on eigenfunctions and wave packets inN-body quantum systems IV

We systematize the study of reflection positivity in statistical mechanical models, and thereby two techniques in the theory of phase transitions: the method ofinfrared bounds and the chessboard method of estimating contour probabilities in Peierls arguments. We illustrate the ideas by applying them to models with long range interactions in one and two dimensions. Additional applications are discussed in a second paper.Research partially supported by US National Science Foundation under Grant MPS-75-11864Research partially supported by Canadian National Research Council under Grant A4015Research partially supported by US National Science Foundation under Grant MCS-75-21684-A01     

Yang-Mills and Dirac fields in a bag,constraints and reduction

The structure of the constraint set in the Yang-Mills-Dirac theory in a contractible bounded domain is analysed under the bag boundary conditions. The gauge symmetry group is identified, and it is proved that its action on the phase space is proper and admits slices. The reduced phase space is shown to be the union of symplectic manifolds, each of which corresponds to a definite mode of symmetry breaking.Research partially supported by NSERC Research Grant SAP0008091.Research partially supported by DFG Grant Schw. 485/2-1.Research partially supported by NSERC Research Grant OGP0042416.     

The Euler-Poincaré equations and double bracket dissipation

This paper studies the perturbation of a Lie-Poisson (or, equivalently an Euler-Poincaré) system by a special dissipation term that has Brockett's double bracket form. We show that a formally unstable equilibrium of the unperturbed system becomes a spectrally and hence nonlinearly unstable equilibrium after the perturbation is added. We also investigate the geometry of this dissipation mechanism and its relation to Rayleigh dissipation functions. This work complements our earlier work (Bloch, Krishnaprasad, Marsden and Ratiu [1991, 1994]) in which we studied the corresponding problem for systems with symmetry with the dissipation added to the internal variables; here it is added directly to the group or Lie algebra variables. The mechanisms discussed here include a number of interesting examples of physical interest such as the Landau-Lifschitz equations for ferromagnetism, certain models for dissipative rigid body dynamics and geophysical fluids, and certain relative equilibria in plasma physics and stellar dynamics.Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation PYI grant DMS-91-57556, and AFOSR grant F49620-93-1-0037.Research partially supported by the AFOSR University Research Initiative Program under grants AFOSR-87-0073 and AFOSR-90-0105 and by the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Centers Program NSFD CDR 8803012.Research partially supported by, DOE contract DE-FG03-92ER-25129, a Fairchild Fellowship at Caltech, and the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences.Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 91-42613, DOE contract DE-FG03-92ER-25129, the Fields Institute, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, and the Miller Institute of the University of California.     

The Hartree-Fock theory for Coulomb systems

For neutral atoms and molecules and positive ions and radicals, we prove the existence of solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations which minimize the Hartree-Fock energy. We establish some properties of the solutions including exponential falloff.Research partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grant MCS-75-21684Research partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants MPS-75-11864 and MPS-75-20638. On leave from Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08540, USA     

A Particular Bit of Universality: Scaling Limits of Some Dependent Percolation Models

We study families of dependent site percolation models on the triangular lattice and hexagonal lattice that arise by applying certain cellular automata to independent percolation configurations. We analyze the scaling limit of such models and show that the distance between macroscopic portions of cluster boundaries of any two percolation models within one of our families goes to zero almost surely in the scaling limit. It follows that each of these cellular automaton generated dependent percolation models has the same scaling limit (in the sense of Aizenman-Burchard [3]) as independent site percolation on .The work was conducted while this author was at Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. Research partially supported by the U.S. NSF under grants DMS-98-02310 and DMS-01-02587.Research partially supported by the U.S. NSF under grants DMS-98-03267 and DMS-01-04278.Research partially supported by FAPERJ grant E-26/151.905/2000 and CNPq.     

Lifschitz tails for the Anderson model

We present, in an expository way, an elementary rigorous proof (patterned after an argument of Kirsch-Martinelli) that the Anderson model has Lifschitz tails in very great generality.Research partially supported by USNSF Grant No. MCS-81-20833.     

Dilation analyticity in constant electric field

We extend the analysis of Paper I from two body dilation analytic systems in constant electric field toN-body systems in constant electric field. Particular attention is paid to what happens to isolated eigenvalues of an atomic or molecular system in zero field when the field is turned on. We prove that the corresponding eigenvalue of the complex scaled Hamiltonian is stable and becomes a resonance. We study analyticity properties of the levels as a function of the field and also Borel summability.Research partially supported by USNSF grant MCS 78-00101Research partially supported by USNSF grant MCS 78-01885     

Two-Dimensional Critical Percolation: The Full Scaling Limit

We use SLE ₆ paths to construct a process of continuum nonsimple loops in the plane and prove that this process coincides with the full continuum scaling limit of 2D critical site percolation on the triangular lattice – that is, the scaling limit of the set of all interfaces between different clusters. Some properties of the loop process, including conformal invariance, are also proved.Research partially supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship under contract MEIF-CT-2003-500740 and by a Veni grant of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).Research partially supported by the U.S. NSF under grant DMS-01-04278.     

A three-dimensional Brownian path reflected on a Brownian path is a free Brownian path

Three-dimensional Brownian path reflected on Brownian path is a free Brownian path.Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS 91-00244.     

Grad ø perturbations of massless Gaussian fields

We investigate weak perturbations of the continuum massless Gaussian measure by a class of approximately local analytic functionals and use our general results to give a new proof that the pressure of the dilute dipole gas is analytic in the activity.Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8802912Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8601978 and DMS-8806731     

Mean field upper bound on the transition temperature in multicomponent ferromagnets

Using local Ward identities and a new correlation inequality, we prove that the mean field transition temperature is an upper bound on the true transition temperature in multicomponent Heisenberg-type classical ferromagnets.Research partially supported by the NSF under Grant MCS-78-01885.     

Invariant states of a thermally conducting barrier

For an infinite one-dimensional system representing a thermally conducting barrier and two semi-infinite reservoirs which it separates, we prove the existence of a unique stationary probability distribution, to which essentially any initial distribution converges for large times.Research partially supported by NSF grant No. PHY-8003298.Research partially supported by NSF grant No. PHY-8201708.     

Classical and quantum mechanical systems of Toda-lattice type

Solutions to the classical periodic and non-periodic Toda lattice type Hamiltonian systems are expressed in terms of an Iwasawa-type factorization of a large Lie group. The scattering of these systems is determined in the non-periodic case. For the generalized periodic Toda lattices a generalization of Kostant's formula is obtained using standard representations of affine Lie groups.Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 83-01582Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 79-03153     

Nonlinearizability of the Iwasawa Poisson Lie structure

We show that Lu and Weinstein's Iwasawa Poisson Lie structure on a simple compact Lie group K is not linearizable when K is not SU(2).Chercheur qualifié au FNRS. Research partially supported by EEC contract SC1-0105-C.     

On the sympletic geometry of the super Teichmüller space

The geometry of the Teichmüller space of the super Riemann surfaces is examined. The Weil-Petersson Kähler form is calculated in terms of the super coordinate functions which provide local coordinates for the super Teichmüller space. It is shown that the Kähler form on the super Teichmüller space is closed.Work partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture No. 02302020Work partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Educations, Science and Culture No. 02740145     

Regularity of harmonic maps with prescribed singularities

In this paper, we studied the regularity problem for harmonic maps into hyperbolic spaces with prescribed singularities along codimension two submanifolds. This is motivated from one of Hawking's conjectures on the uniqueness of Kerr solutions among all axially symmetric asymptotically flat stationary solutions to the vacuum Einstein equation in general relativity.Research partially supported by a NSF grant DMS-8907849.Research partially supported by a NSF grant     

Rigorous entropy-energy arguments

We present a method for making rigorous various arguments which predict that certain situations are unstable because of a balance of energy vs. entropy. As applications, we give yet another proof that the two-dimensional plane rotor has no spontaneous magnetization and we make rigorous Thouless' arguments on the one-dimensional Ising model with couplingJ/n ².on leave from Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University. Research partially supported by U.S.N.S.F. under grant No. MCS-78-01885.Danforth Fellow. Research partially supported by U.S.N.S.F. under grant No. PHY 78-23952.