From lattice quantum electrodynamics to the distribution of the algebraic areas enclosed by random walks on Z^2

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/33zbMATH Open1386.60163arXiv1504.00314OpenAlexW3106173256MaRDI QIDQ509904FDOQ509904

Authors: Thomas Epelbaum, François Gelis, Bin Wu 

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the worldline formalism, scalar Quantum Electrodynamics on a 2-dimensional lattice is related to the areas of closed loops on this lattice. We exploit this relationship in order to determine the general structure of the moments of the algebraic areas over the set of loops that have fixed number of edges in the two directions. We show that these moments are the product of a combinatorial factor that counts the number of such loops, by a polynomial in the numbers of steps in each direction. Our approach leads to an algorithm for obtaining explicit formulas for the moments of low order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00314

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic areaslattice QEDrandom walks on \(\mathbb{Z}^2\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Random walks on graphs (05C81)

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