Block diagonalizing ultrametric matrices

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/23/008zbMATH Open0842.15010arXivcond-mat/9409050OpenAlexW1983082869MaRDI QIDQ4874836FDOQ4874836

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Publication date: 24 July 1996

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of diagonalizing a class of complicated matrices, to be called ultrametric matrices, is investigated. These matrices appear at various stages in the description of disordered systems with many equilibrium phases by the technique of replica symmetry breaking. The residual symmetry, remaining after the breaking of permutation symmetry between replicas, allows us to bring all ultrametric matrices to a block diagonal form by a common similarity transformation. A large number of these blocks are, in fact, of size 1 times 1, i.e. in a vast sector the transformation actually diagonalizes the matrix. In the other sectors we end up with blocks of size (R+1) times (R+1) where R is the number of replica symmetry breaking steps. These blocks cannot be further reduced without giving more information, in addition to ultrametric symmetry, about the matrix. Similar results for the inverse of a generic ultrametric matrix are also derived.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9409050

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zbMATH Keywords

disordered systemsdiagonalizationultrametric matricesblock diagonal formreplica-symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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