Large deviations for empirical path measures in cycles of integer partitions

MaRDI QIDQ6478715zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Adams

Publication date 2 February 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Brownian motion (60J65) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: Consider a large system of $N$ Brownian motions in $mathbb{R}^d$ on some fixed time interval $$ with symmetrised initial-terminal condition. That is, for any $i$, the terminal location of the $i$-th motion is affixed to the initial point of the $sigma(i)$-th motion, where $sigma$ is a uniformly distributed random permutation of $1,\mathrm{...},N$. In this paper, we describe the large-N behaviour of the empirical path measure (the mean of the Dirac measures in the $N$ paths) when $Lambdauparrowmathbb{R}^d$ and $N/|Lambda|oho$. The rate function is given as a variational formula involving a certain entropy functional and a Fenchel-Legendre transform. Depending on the dimension and the density $ho$, there is phase transition behaviour for the empirical path measure. For certain parameters (high density, large time horizon) and dimensions $dge3$ the empirical path measure is not supported on all paths $[0,infty)omathbb{R}^d$ which contain a bridge path of any finite multiple of the time horizon $$. For dimensions $d=1,2$, and for small densities and small time horizon $$ in dimensions $dge3$, the empirical path measure is supported on those paths. In the first regime a finite fraction of the motions lives in cycles of infinite length. We outline that this transition leads to an empirical path measure interpretation of {it Bose-Einstein condensation}, known for systems of Bosons.

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