Elliptic stochastic quantization

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Abstract: We prove an explicit formula for the law in zero of the solution of a class of elliptic SPDE in mathbbR2. This formula is the simplest instance of dimensional reduction, discovered in the physics literature by Parisi and Sourlas (1979), which links the law of an elliptic SPDE in d+2 dimension with a Gibbs measure in d dimensions. This phenomenon is similar to the relation between an mathbbRd+1 dimensional parabolic SPDE and its mathbbRd dimensional invariant measure. As such, dimensional reduction of elliptic SPDEs can be considered a sort of elliptic stochastic quantisation procedure in the sense of Nelson (1966) and Parisi and Wu (1981). Our proof uses in a fundamental way the representation of the law of the SPDE as a supersymmetric quantum field theory. Dimensional reduction for the supersymmetric theory was already established by Klein et al. (1984). We fix a subtle gap in their proof and also complete the dimensional reduction picture by providing the link between the elliptic SPDE and the supersymmetric model. Even in our d=0 context the arguments are non-trivial and a non-supersymmetric, elementary proof seems only to be available in the Gaussian case.


The authors first introduce the notions of strong and weak solutions to two-dimensional elliptic multidimensional stochastic partial differential equations and prove the existence of strong solutions (and thus also of weak solutions) under some hypothesis. The authors also provide a representation of weak solutions via the theory of transformation of measures on abstract Wiener spaces developed by \textit{A. S. Üstünel} and \textit{M. Zakai} [Transformation of measure on Wiener space. Berlin: Springer (2000; Zbl 0938.46045)]. Further, the authors prove a dimensional reduction result for the solution to elliptic stochastic partial differential equations and show the convergence of weak solutions using the convergence of potentials. The authors also propose a brief introduction to supersymmetry and supersymmetric Gaussian fields.



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